Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 107914
Implement support for IAccessible2
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:35:35 UTC
I am a visually impaired person and require a screen reader to use a computer similar to an estimated 7.9 million in the U.S. and 7.4 million in the E.U. the total world wide is an estimated 32 Million. The price of a commercial screen reader is in the region of $700-900 which is beyond the reach of most blind persons. However an open source group has developed a free screen reader NVDA (Non Visual Desktop Access) that is as good as the commercial projects, however there is one problem between that great Open Office project NVDA requires that Open Office adheres to the IAccessible2 accessibility API can anyone help with this problem?
(changed component to UI, title) This is on our wish list, and a contribution IBM promised to make. Status: Waiting for IBM's IA2 contribution for OOo 3 code line - and therefor not starting our own implementation from scratch.
Platform Windows, keyword accessibility.
Subcomponent "code", assign to ab
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Changing owner to lixxing, who started to work on this now.
Changing target to 3.x. Of course many AT users would be happy to see that in 3.3 - but it's not clear to me how long it will take to get everything into the CWS ooo31ia2. And even then, we still need to upstream from the 3.1 based SVN CWS to a 3.3 based HG CWS. But if lixxing can deliver in the 3.3 time frame, we will do our best to also do the 3.3 "porting" as fast as possible...
The latest version of Apache Open Office still doesn't work with NVDA. Since my vision is very poor, I need to hear all the menus and text spoken to me. When I downloaded the Open Office program, the menus couldn't be spoken by NVDA. The program is useless to me unless I can hear which function of it I'm accessing. Is there some patch I can use to get NVDA to speak all the menus and text?
"hdu" committed SVN revision 1542228 into trunk: #i107914# fix build breaker on 64bit platforms introduced by ia2
"hdu" committed SVN revision 1542243 into trunk: #i107914# fix another build breaker on 64bit platforms
"steve_y" committed SVN revision 1541847 into trunk: #i107914# integrate branch of IAccessible2
"hdu" committed SVN revision 1542248 into trunk: #i107914# IA2 build fixes in SW-module for 64bit platforms
"hdu" committed SVN revision 1542312 into trunk: #i107914# adjust license headers to the ALv2
On Windows 7 sp1 64-bit with NVDA 2013.2 active AOO410m1(Build:9750) - Rev. 1542312 Rev.1542312 The Windows nightly buildbot of rev 1542312 with the ia2 branch merged is operational and stable with MSAA/IAccessible2 AT support. The implementation does cause an issue when AT is activated by a user but then they disable their AT--the OpenOffice registry registrymodifications.xcu configuration file must be physically removed before they can run the Windows instance of Apache OpenOffice again without AT being active. See issue in bug 123643
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"hdu" committed SVN revision 1542948 into trunk: #i107914# revert license header change which was introduced as svn-merge arti...
"hdu" committed SVN revision 1542949 into trunk: #i107914# adjust the g_msaasvc.h license header to the ALv2
"hdu" committed SVN revision 1543429 into trunk: #i107914# fix winaccessibility build when --disable-atl configure switch is used
Support for an IAccessible2 Windows native bridge is essentially complete. Setting this Resolved Fixed. Substantive Windows accessibility issues including IAccessible2 issues are being tracked under bug 121767 the 'winA11y' metabug.
"ydario" committed SVN revision 1568630 into trunk: #i107914# also OS/2 is a non-Windows platform, fix build break.