Re: [orca-list] Apache Openoffice?

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Here's an LWN article on the point from 2016:

https://lwn.net/Articles/699755/

Unless the situation has changed, the best course of action would 
probably be a meeting with the Document Foundation to improve the 
accessibility development process in LibreOffice about which you seem to 
have concerns.



On 6/7/20 12:18 PM, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL via orca-list wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I undertand your points and can share them. What makes me have a look 
> at apache openoffice is that Libreoffice has been experiencing 
> regressions, since 4.2.6, and no improvements (in accessibility) 
> except these brought by Hypra. This community refuses any development 
> guideline  (would make afraid contributors), any so much constraints 
> due to accessibility, including non-regression tests they tend to 
> disable (ok they funded one suite 1 year ago, a right effort, but the 
> remaining work is so much and some bugs opened have a commit 
> introducing identified and never reverted). They only want money, to 
> fix, and follow the dev (i.e. running behind the dev stream to fix 
> accessibility). So I tend to loose hope about any chance this program 
> to stay accessible and improve it, because no funds will exist for 
> this (nowadays the fashion is in Office 365, Google suite). 
> Libreoffice online is still more inaccessible.
>
> As I am pessimistic, I try examining other solutions, to have an 
> office app accessible and, especially, a community much more opened to 
> non-regression tests, absolute conditions to fund any accessibility 
> effort.
>
> Note that is only an explore, so far I really just investigate. And 
> what you say is important in my benchmarking. But I would like to 
> avoid to advice to use Google or office 365 to have an accessible 
> office solution in the future on a GNU/linux desktop.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Le 07/06/2020 à 17:22, Jason White a écrit :
> > On 6/6/20 8:05 AM, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL via orca-list wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am exploring this program, and wonder wether it is supposte to 
> > > work with Orca.
> >
> >
> > Why are you interested in Apache OpenOffice rather than LibreOffice? 
> > My understanding is that almost all of the development is taking 
> > place in LibreOffice these days, and that Apache OpenOffice isn't a 
> > significant project anymore, even if it's still technically 
> > continuing - I wouldn't expect any luck in having accessibility 
> > problems resolved there, and suggest focusing on LibreOffice instead 
> > (they're both derived from the same code when they parted ways).
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