Re: [orca-list] Which Office? Libre or Apachi?
- From: Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>
- To: Orca E-mail List <orca-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: [orca-list] Which Office? Libre or Apachi?
- Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 13:26:56 +0100
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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