Hello, In the context of LibreOffice, the Hypra company will work on an accessibility non-regression check tool. Basically, the idea is to design a tool which will check .ui files for accessibility issues: missing relations between widgets and labels, notably. The tool would just use lxml to parse the files and emit warnings for the found issues. Such a tool could be called by application build system so that developers get the warnings along other compiler warnings, and treated the same way. It could also be used in Continuous Integration reports. Of course, there are a lot of existing issues in applications, so we plan to add support for suppression rules, so that when the tool invocation is integrated, one can integrate an initial set of suppression rules which allows to start with a zero-warning state, and then for a start developers will try to stay without warning, and progressively fix existing issues and their corresponding suppression rules. One of the remaining questions we have (it's not blocking for our immediate development, though) is whether this tool should be integrated within LibreOffice, or within gtk. The latter would both allow more widespread use of the tool by other projects, and make the maintenance happen there, thus less work for LibreOffice :) We would like to provide it with a licence which is as permissive as possible, so that projects can easily integrate it, so would it be possible to keep it BSD-licenced inside gtk? Otherwise we'll probably open e.g. a github project just for hosting a BSD version, from which we will push updates to gtk and libreoffice (and any other project for which LGPL is problematic). I have attached our current version. It's not really finished or anything, it's just for showing what it could look like eventually. Samuel
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