[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice and VoiceOver

Le 29/11/12 16:21, Patrick Adams a écrit :

Hi Patrick,

> Please someone tell me this maybe a faulty installation and what I can do about that (yes I can 
> download again but don't want to waste time if this lack of accessibility for VoiceOver is 
> reality. Or perhaps there are some settings that need altering, I could not make any sense of the 
> settings window, nothing worked and nothing led to anywhere.
>
> Can anyone help?

Sorry to disappoint you, but LibreOffice is not "fully accessible" on
the Mac. Your experience pretty much sums up the limited support for
people with disabilities on that platform attempting to use LibreOffice.

In addition, using VoiceOver and other accessibility tools with
LibreOffice is known to cause random crashes. The reason is that the
accessibility calls rely on an obsolescent programming interface which
has since officially been declared deprecated by Apple, so until someone
within the project manages to convince a Mac developer to join and help
fix those issues, your problems will not be solved. There are or were
plans to integrate IBM's developments for Symphony of a newer
accessibility API into LibreOffice, but that has not happened for the
moment as far as I know, and yet we keep hearing about it every now and
then.


For the time being, your best bet is to stick to the application that
currently works best for you, but I sincerely doubt that that
application is LibreOffice.



Alex


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