Re: [orca-list] continuous reading skips in libreoffice

[Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org>]

Was just curious, does open office follow the same line?
Now that we have 2 forks of the same product, it is interesting to see 
how Open Office is shaping up with regards to accessibility.
Happy hacking.
Krishnaknat.


On Tuesday 12 July 2016 09:48 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi Sathyan.
>
> I've started debugging this and it appears to be a bug in LibreOffice.
> When we try to get each paragraph in order purely through using AT-SPI2
> (which is what Say All does), some paragraphs claim to have no text. The
> paragraphs Orca "skips" are the ones LibreOffice claims are completely
> empty.
>
> In contrast, when you use the arrow keys, LibreOffice moves you, figures
> out the new caret location, and then tells Orca where you moved to. My
> guess is that the work done by LibreOffice to tell Orca the new caret
> location is ensuring that when Orca asks for the text at the new
> location, LibreOffice gives Orca the correct text.
>
> I'll dig some more into this, but mainly it will be to verify the bug
> isn't already fixed in a nightly build of LO and to file a bug against
> LO for you if it's not. (Along with the other broken LO stuff I've been
> seeing today.)
>
> Sorry and thanks for the report!
> --joanie
>
> On 06/25/2016 09:11 PM, sathyan wrote:
> > friends,
> > I was trying to read 160 page long book using libreoffice. I could
> > navigate using my arrow keys but if I press plus key in the numpad it
> > skips and orca does not read. I use ubuntu 16.4
> > Thanking you Sathyan.
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