Re: [orca-list] finding comments in libreoffice writer

[Peter Rayner <prayner unimelb edu au>]

Thanks Joanie. While we're at it thanks to all of you who put the orca
debugging infrastructure together. I think it means those of us who
are experienced with code but not with *this* code can make
a contribution, even if only with lucid bug reports. 
cheers
Peter

Joanmarie Diggs writes:
> Hi Peter.
>
> On 04/19/2014 07:44 AM, Peter Rayner wrote:
>
> > Presumably this is fixed by getting "object replacement character"
> > pronounced. 
>
> That won't solve the "finding comments" problem; that will merely cause
> Orca to say "object replacement character" when you arrow to it instead
> of saying nothing. Mind you, I fully agree that saying nothing is bad.
> So.... Orca master will now say that string instead of nothing in cases
> where the application fails to fully implement support for
> replaced/embedded objects. In addition, I filed two bugs against
> LibreOffice:
>
> 1. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77679
>   "Accessibility support for replaced objects is incomplete"
>
> 2. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77682
>   "LibreOffice comments should have ATK_ROLE_COMMENT"
>
> Thanks for the report!
> --joanie

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