Re: [orca-list] Open Office accessibility

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 07:35:27PM +0100, Ednun Pourtahmasbi wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I was wondering what work is still being done to make Open office accessible
> with Orca? I have noticed for example that bullets are not read out by
> default when you bullet an item, though you can detect some sort of odd aski
> character at the beginning of the line.

This should be working now.  You might have to turn punctuation level
higher in Orca to get this working but recent changes to Orca - like
in the past couple months saw this working in Writer.  It works on my
machine.  Numbered lists also work.

> Also, I appreciate you can read text attributes with Orca key f, but can you
> get it to read them automatically as for example font and colour change? So
> read "font size 12 Areal", then just read the text for the next few lines,
> but then when you cursor over a new sized line, read the next font
> adjustment?

There is an outstanding bug requesting this change.  I have taken it
to work on but haven't gotten underway with it yet.  I am also anxious
to get this working.

> Also, in Windows MS Office, I tend to use styles and headings to quicly
> format text. I can see the option in Open Office but I can't see a way to
> get at this with Orca, to pick styles etc. Can this be done?

Yes, I use the options from the menu and you should be able to see the
styles list there; I've done that without much trouble.  I'm not in
gnome at the moment so don't know the exact menu options but I didn't
have any trouble finding it.