Re: [orca-list] suggestions for openoffice/orca improvements

["Krishnakant Mane" <hackingkk gmail com>]

yes hermann you are right.
there should be such feature requests and I did not hack into orca
source for quite some time now.  I had started about 6 months back but
in the process of accessibility training workshops etc I lost touch at
the very beginning.
any ways firefox accessibility and office accessibility are my
favorite areas and now I realise that even before I contribute some
thing to the openoffice side it will be better if I report for feature
requests based on my accessibility experience.
Infact this is my advice also to the newcommers wishing to hack the code.
give your self some time and till you get your hands deep into orca
source, at least do feature requests depending on your own experience
with accessibility.
for example I feel there is a need for identifying page numbres in
wordprocessors and also sheet numbers in spreadsheet.
secondly I have no idea about the status of describing charts from a
spreadsheet, which is one of the most important concept.
So doing correct feature request will infact guide the hackers in the
right directions.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 11/05/2008, Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de> wrote:
> am So 11. Mai 2008 um 10:09:33 schrieb Guy Schlosser <guyster bex net>:
> > Hello fellow listers, I just wanted to throw a few suggestions out
> > here for improvements to orca with relation to openoffice.  There may
> > be work-arounds out there, but I've been googling for a few days now,
> > since I've been working on a document for work, and haven't found any
> > yet.  My first suggestion is for a way to tell what line/column
> > position you are at on a page.  This would be very useful for
> > determining where page breaks are appearing in a document.  Secondly,
> > a way to tell exactly what is not in dictionary when spell-checking
> > would be awesome.  I've gotten around this contextually so far, by
> > arrowing through the suggestion list, and deducing what is
> > misspelled.  Lastly, is there a way to easily insert a symbol, such
> > as degrees in a document?  If anyone else has found any existing
> > work-arounds to these three problems, I would definitely appreciate
> > the suggestions.
>
> As I know, there are no such features in OO.
> Perhaps you should add some feature requests on Orca's bug report page.
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
> You must first set up an account, if you don't have one.
> Then start reporting a new bug, and choose "feature request".
> So you make sure, that all team members get your message.
> Hermann
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