[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] LibreOffice 4.0.5

Hi :)
I thought a few people here might be interested in the announcement just made to the accessibility 
mailing list.  


I'm not sure if anyone else currently uses screen-readers and such but it's often occured to me as 
a good thing to try out.  Also if you are the IT person in a company or have friends or relatives 
that would find screen-readers and things helpful then the announcement might interest you too.  


The accessibility mailing list is a vey low traffic list (kinda the opposite of this one) so 
joining it might be very helpful to ensure you get notices such as this one (err, 'see' below)


Regards from 

Tom :) 




________________________________
 From: Niklas Johansson <sleeping.pillow@gmail.com>
To: accessibility@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Thursday, 22 August 2013, 17:26
Subject: [libreoffice-accessibility] LibreOffice 4.0.5
 

LibreOffice 4.0.5 was released today and I just wanted to make you all aware that there are at 
least two accessibility related fixes included in this release.

Windows:
As Stuart announced earlier the Java Accessibility Bridge is now fixed for Java 7. This is the 
first release in the 4.0-series of LibreOffice that includes this patch. David did a great job with 
this patch.

Mac:
The first patches from Boris will be in this release. It is a patch to make VoiceOver follow the 
keyboard focus. This is a huge step for the accessibility support on Mac. There are a more 
improvements to come in later versions of LibreOffice, such as typing echo information about text 
attributes etc. I do not know exactly when these improvements will be available but they should be 
in LibreOffice 4.2-series which will be released in the beginning of next year (~february).

Linux:
Sorry to say that I do not know of any improvements for the Linux version.

See: Stuarts announcement 
<http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Java-JRE-7-based-Java-Access-Bridge-is-now-functional-td4065392.html>

-- Cheers,
Niklas Johansson


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