Re: [orca-list] A question about Libreoffice, schoolbooks in .doc, and navigating

[Rastislav Kish <rastislav kish protonmail com>]

Hey there,

while the Orca implementation may be a bit challenging for now, it may
be worth pointing out, that you can always convert your
.doc/docx/odt/whatever file to HTML, if you need the structural navigation.

HTML (if done correctly) is best for reading anyway, so you won't lose
anything here.


If you need not just to read the document but also write to it, you can
convert it to Markdown (for example with Pandoc) and navigate
structurally by searching the textual representation of each structure.


Best regards


Rastislav


Dňa 6. 7. 2021 o 18:19 Cisco Tissera via orca-list napísal(a):
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am using Fedora 34 with Orca master, latest commit and libreoffice
> 7.1.4.
> A little while ago, my school books came, in .doc format, as I
> requested them to work on them on Windows.
> A thought occurred to me, and that was  to try on Linux, but I soon
> found out I couldn't navigate in them via headings or links, even
> though both those things were in there.
> On windows with MS Word and NVDA, the screen reader lets me navigate
> between those and click links as well, because it lets me switch
> between the modes with nvda plus space, while orca on Linux doesn't.
> Is there a way to make Orca do such a thing as of now, or could it be
> implemented?
> A sort of focus mode and browse mode for libreoffice in orca would be
> pretty cool.
> Thanks for any answer.
> Best regards.
> Francisco.