Re: OpenOffice and orca.

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Luke:

Thanks for the kind words.  We're pleased with the very positive  
feedback we received at CSUN last week, but we also realize we are  
not done yet.  We definitely want to listen to our users and  
incorporate useful feedback where we can.  We also have a mailing  
list, orca-list gnome org (see <http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/ 
listinfo/orca-list>), for people to engage in constructive discussion  
regarding Orca.

We've been working with the {Star,Open}Office teams to improve the AT- 
SPI support.  At CSUN, we were showing an internal release of  
StarOffice that is using a direct UNO<->ATK bridge.  Orca is  
depending upon this new bridge rather than the old UNO<->Java<->Java- 
Bridge way of doing things.  I've heard some discussion to the  
contrary, but I don't believe this new UNO<->ATK bridge is publicly  
available yet.  Instead, I believe it will be in OpenOffice 2.0.3.   
According to <http://development.openoffice.org/releases/ 
OpenOffice_org_2_x.html>, the 2.0.3 release will be available on May  
29th 2006.  We will be banging on Orca and OpenOffice between now and  
the code freeze date in hopes that we can get Orca working reasonably  
well with 2.0.3.  This will give people a chance to take it for a  
test drive - we hope to then use early and detailed feedback to  
provide a much more compelling user experience for the 2.0.4 release  
slated for September 4th, 2006.

Hope this helps,

Will


On Mar 27, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:

> Hi all
> I have been playing around with orca, and must say how impressed with
> how far it has come, particularly with such things as the terminal.
>
> From watching the orca presentation video, I noticed you guys were  
> using
> StarOffice I think it was to demonstrate office functionality. Is the
> same amount of accessibility possible with OpenOffice.org? Orca  
> manages
> to speak the menus, but not toolbar, and no reading text where-ever  
> the
> cursor is placed within text.
>
> I am running OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 on Ubuntu dapper, with the latest  
> Orca
> tarball release. Does anything in particular need to be done to
> OpenOffice to get the same level of access as was achieved in the
> presentation?
>
> Thanks in advance.
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