Re: [orca-list] Apache Openoffice?



Hi,

I undertand your points and can share them. What makes me have a look at apache openoffice is that Libreoffice has been experiencing regressions, since 4.2.6, and no improvements (in accessibility) except these brought by Hypra. This community refuses any development guideline (would make afraid contributors), any so much constraints due to accessibility, including non-regression tests they tend to disable (ok they funded one suite 1 year ago, a right effort, but the remaining work is so much and some bugs opened have a commit introducing identified and never reverted). They only want money, to fix, and follow the dev (i.e. running behind the dev stream to fix accessibility). So I tend to loose hope about any chance this program to stay accessible and improve it, because no funds will exist for this (nowadays the fashion is in Office 365, Google suite). Libreoffice online is still more inaccessible.

As I am pessimistic, I try examining other solutions, to have an office app accessible and, especially, a community much more opened to non-regression tests, absolute conditions to fund any accessibility effort.

Note that is only an explore, so far I really just investigate. And what you say is important in my benchmarking. But I would like to avoid to advice to use Google or office 365 to have an accessible office solution in the future on a GNU/linux desktop.

Regards


Le 07/06/2020 à 17:22, Jason White a écrit :

On 6/6/20 8:05 AM, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL via orca-list wrote:
Hi,

I am exploring this program, and wonder wether it is supposte to work with Orca.


Why are you interested in Apache OpenOffice rather than LibreOffice? My understanding is that almost all of the development is taking place in LibreOffice these days, and that Apache OpenOffice isn't a significant project anymore, even if it's still technically continuing - I wouldn't expect any luck in having accessibility problems resolved there, and suggest focusing on LibreOffice instead (they're both derived from the same code when they parted ways).




[Date Prev][Date Next]   [Thread Prev][Thread Next]   [Thread Index] [Date Index] [Author Index]