Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Accessibility Regressions Observed With Writer 7.5.1 and JAWS 2023

On 21/3/23 04:28, Michael Weghorn wrote:
> My assumption would be that JAWS is still somehow relying on the 
> previously reported app name and/or version to detect LibreOffice.
> If so, that should be changed/fixed in JAWS in my opinion.
> (I'd suggest to either query for the toolkit name, which is "VCL" or 
> support not just "LibreOffice" as app name, but also "LibreOfficeDev", 
> which is the name that the development version uses, and app names for 
> vendor-specific LibreOffice derivatives.)
Consistently with your conclusions here, Orca under Linux has no issue 
here, as far as I can tell. I'm running 7.5.1 on Arch Linux.
> 2. When navigating in a pull-down menu JAWS is silent and no longer
> > reads the item that has focus. Example: press alt+T for the Tools 
> > menu and
> > press down arrow to navigate in this menu. JAWS is now silent when 
> > moving
> > from one item to the next.
>
> This starts at this commit and looks like a regression in LibreOffice:
> https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/8d8e6c84e512c1a8b33aac75965b84481d1a1d13 
>
> ("[API CHANGE] Drop css::accessibility::XAccessibleStateSet")
I just ran LibreOffice Writer, used F10 to access the menus and 
navigated around. I can't reproduce this issue with Linux and Orca.

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