Bug#494378: gnome-orca: Fails to read Open office writer styles and formatting panel

[Mario Lang]

Sam Hartman <hartmans at debian.org> writes:

> Package: gnome-orca
> Version: 2.22.2-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi.  Feel free to reassign to openoffice.org-writer or to jointly assign to
> gnome-orca and the other package.  Upstmream at least seems to have
> a number of bugs about accessibility of various packages, but I
> can't tell how you want to handle it for Debian.

Personally, I think for most gnome-orca bugs it is probably
best to report them upstream at bugzilla.gnome.org.  The orca team
is pretty responsive.  Besides, most accessibility
bugs can be fixed in gnome-orca directly (by scriptability) and if
the bug really belongs to an application, the orca team usually
is good at forwarding stuff to the appropriate people.

It also makes sense to check with other users first if
someone else observes the same behavior.  The orca-list has a good
amount of users and dev people hanging out there.

> Gnome-orca cannot read the styles and formatting panel in Open Office.
> As a result you cannot add a style, apply styles to text, etc.  That
> makes it basically impossible to use opennofice.org-writer in a
> professional context.  As far as I can tell the problem is that the
> widgets in question simply are not accessible.

Sounds like something you might want to report upstream and check with them.
I personally dont use OOo yet since my first attempts of using
it were very disappointing since many things were not working.
AIUI, stuff has improved, but there is probably still a lot to do.

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