Re: [orca-list] Which Office? Libre or Apachi?

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
The way I understand all this is that IBM has donated their symphony 
accessibility code to openoffice a while ago. Their aim was to provide 
support for extended IAccessible2 interfaces on windows providing better 
accessibility. Now openoffice is approaching the release with this code 
included. Libreoffice has also adopted this and in their upcoming 4.2 
release windows users will be able to use this new accessibility support 
for windows as an experimental feature. In 4.3 it should be the only 
accessibility API available on windows.
Of course while doing all this it is probable some of the non platform 
specific accessibility related issues were also fixed. Since libreoffice 
has this accessibility related work included along with some 
optimizations by the libreoffice developers I my-self assume libre 
office is okay to use since that's already included in most of the 
modern distros.
There are still some noticeable accessibility related bug reports 
unresolved in both the trackers openoffice and also libreoffice. Of 
course in orca master there are some more improvements related to 
libreoffice support so at least we know the situation is improving and 
will most likelly improve even further for us.


Greetings

Peter

On 06.02.2014 12:55, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Since the original Open Office was forked and the old Oracle code was
> apparently passed over to Apache and IBM has apparently injected their
> stuff from Lotus Symphony including some presumed a11y stuff, I'm
> wondering now which might be a better way to go. I realize most Linux
> distros today are probably using LibreOffice with its more liberal
> licensing terms, but in view of recent breakage of a11y in latest
> versions of LibreOffice, I wonder if the Apache version might be a
> better or more accessible way to go.
>
> Any ideas? comments?
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