Re: [orca-list] Comments and change tracking in LibreOffice Writer with Orca

[MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <texou actux eu org>]

Hi,

Yes, these bugs are known and reported. They are due to the fact that LO 
doesn't send to a11y bus information about comments and changes. Hence 
the problem.

It makes part of the big changes needed by LO to be more accessible. I 
hope we'll manage to handle them, but given that working on LO is a hard 
work, we are waiting for finding the good approach.

Know today that:
1. Some study is doing to identify a11y bugs of LO and fix them. While 
it is for NVDA, I hope the fixes will concern GNU/Linux as well.
2. This study, driven by the French State, will enable to write a 
request for code, that will be done by a third-party company.
3. We plan a crowd-funding to pay for such changes too, if the 1st 
approach doesn't give good results for GNU/Linux.

Regards,

Le 19/07/2015 20:00, Jason White a écrit :
> Has anyone on the list had any success using change tracking or comments with
> LibreOffice Writer?
>
> With change tracking, the braille display shows a question mark where the
> change occurs. If I move to that character, speech reports it as an "object
> replacement character". The same happens with comments. However, I can't find
> any means of discovering, with change tracking on, what has been inserted or
> deleted.
>
> If I try to insert a comment, Orca is unable to present any of the text that I
> type. Further, I can't find any means of reviewing existing comments.
>
> The use case is one of: take a word processor file with comments and change
> tracking enabled, make changes and send it back to the author.
>
> When writing documents from scratch, I always use LaTeX, Markdown or HTML, so
> I don't run into this problem. Fortunately, some of my colleagues are
> comfortable with Git and text editors, but I also receive word processor files
> from time to time that need to be edited and returned in the same format, so
> simply converting them isn't the right option in such cases.
>
> The version of LibreOffice is 4.4.4. My suspicion is that these are
> LibreOffice bugs that will take for ever to get fixed, but one might as well
> start somewhere!
>
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