Re: [orca-list] libre office accessibility

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Kendell.

On 05/12/2014 02:18 AM, kendell clark wrote:

> In writer, if there are images
> in a document, orca can't tell that there's an image there,

That is this LibreOffice bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77679

> row, orca reads out every cell in the row you're switching to.

As others have stated, you can use Orca + F11 to toggle this off. You
can also set your LibreOffice preferences to read cell by default rather
than row.

The issue here is that from an accessibility point of view, Writer and
Calc are the same application and thus the same script kicks in. And if
we make the default setting to read cell instead of row, then
LibreOffice Writer tables by default aren't presented correctly. Orca +
F11 will be needed for one or the other.

On my short list is convincing Orca that this one app is two apps.
And/or convince my colleague who has begun working on LibreOffice
accessibility to expose them as separate apps. <smile> Either way, then
Writer and Calc could have separate settings.

--joanie