[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Conveying the language of document text

Hi :)
A post to the "Accessibility|" mailing list has has no responses for a few
days.  I am not sure how to handle it.  "Accessibility" is about
screen-readers and such like.  A recent code donation from Apache is in the
process of radically changing the way LO handles accessibility issues by
removing dependence on Java.  The last couple of versions of LO have had
the new way of dealing with accessibility in the "enable experimental
features" while keeping the java-way as the default.  I'm not sure how the
4.3.0beta handles accessibility.  Does anyone here know?

This sort of question sound like something the devs list or QA team might
handle better.  Can anyone help this chap by forrwarding the request on to
those sorts of teams?
Regards from
Tom :)



On 3 May 2014 14:12, Marco Zehe <marco.zehe@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I was just playing with the latest Master dev build of LibreOffice 4.3
> again, and thought it would be nice if it exposed the language of text in a
> way that NVDA and other screen readers could use. If the currently active
> synthesizer supports it, text in multilingual documents would then be read
> with a voice/language appropriate. So English text would be read with an
> English voice, German text with a German one, etc.
>
> In MS Office, at least JAWS and NVDA support that. The language is derived
> from the info about which language is set for spell checking that
> particular text. Since that information is available in LibreOffice, too,
> if the dictionaries are installed, it should be possible to expose that
> information.
>
> Firefox does this in IAccessible2, and I've described it here:
> http://www.marcozehe.de/2008/07/17/support-for-text-
> attributes-and-spell-checking-is-coming-in-firefox-31/
> Yes, that article is almost 6 years old, but still very much valid. ;-)
>
> So far, I have not seen evidence that LO (or OO for that matter) expose
> the language portion of this info mentioned in the blog post. Or am I
> missing something?
>
> Would like to check here first before filing an enhancement request.
>
> Thanks!
>
> marco
>
>
>
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