Re: Exploring LibreOffice Accessibility with Accerciser.

2012-04-17 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hey Jason. > I don't know what you're proposing and I am not well qualified to give an > opinion on whether your feature should be written in Orca or in LibreOffice. > Rather, I am expressing a general concern about the push for more and more > complex, application-specific, interactive features i

Re: Exploring LibreOffice Accessibility with Accerciser.

2012-04-17 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Dattatray, In addition to Jason's comments below, I'd like to weigh in from a historical perspective... Many years ago, we decided to only expose Accessibles for the visible content in OOo because of the huge memory hit doing otherwise would involve for a

Re: Exploring LibreOffice Accessibility with Accerciser.

2012-04-17 Thread Jason White
Dattatray Bhat wrote: > Thanks for the prompt response. I am working on Orca screen reader. I want > to add a feature that would provide the user with a document summary > including all elements (headings, tables, form elements etc.) irrespective > of whether they are on-screen or off-screen. I

Re: Exploring LibreOffice Accessibility with Accerciser.

2012-04-16 Thread Dattatray Bhat
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Jason White wrote: > Dattatray Bhat wrote: > > > Thus at-spi holds information only for those document elements which are > > visible on the screen. Can anybody please suggest a way to access the > > document elements which have moved out of the screen? > > Why

Re: Exploring LibreOffice Accessibility with Accerciser.

2012-04-16 Thread Jason White
Dattatray Bhat wrote: > Thus at-spi holds information only for those document elements which are > visible on the screen. Can anybody please suggest a way to access the > document elements which have moved out of the screen? Why do you want to do this? Presumably your accessibility application

Exploring LibreOffice Accessibility with Accerciser.

2012-04-16 Thread Dattatray Bhat
This query is about accessibility of LibreOffice writer document. If this is not the right place for this post, please forgive me and suggest a suitable forum. I am exploring a LibreOffice writer document using Accerciser. LibreOffice window: I am at the top of the multipage writer document. Only