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Accessibility

2006-10-31T16:09:20Z

Malte Timmermann:

OpenOffice.org has support for various Accessibility aspects: Keyboard navigation, scheming, AT support and much more.

Details can be found here: http://ui.openoffice.org/accessibility/whitepaper.html.

There is a mailing list which can be used for user questions and comments, as well as for developer related things.

Please subscribe to '''accessibility@ui.openoffice.org''', or have a look into http://ui.openoffice.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=accessibility.

The Accessibility Project pages are here: http://ui.openoffice.org/accessibility/

== OpenOffice.org AT support ==

OpenOffice.org exposes it's information to AT via the Java Accessibility API (JAA) on Windows, and via GNOME Accessibility API (ATK) on Linux/Solaris with GNOME.
This way OpenOffice.org should be accessible with AT supporting JAA or ATK.

More details about this can be found here: http://ui.openoffice.org/accessibility/at-support.html.

'''Setup your system, Windows'''

To use Java Accessibility, a current version of Java (v1.5 or newer) must be installed.
This can be found here: http://java.sun.com/

Verify that OpenOffice.org uses the correct version: Choose menu Tools/Options/Java.

You also need the “Java Access Bridge for Windows v2”, which can be found here: http://java.sun.com/products/accessbridge/

You also have to activate AT support in OpenOffice.org: Choose menu Tools/Options/Accessibility and check “Support assistive technology tools”.

'''Setup your system, GNOME'''

Everything you need is included in current versions of GNOME.

Activate AT support globally: Preferences/Accessibility/Assistive Technology Support, check “Enable assistive technologies”
More information can be found here: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/

'''AT that works'''

In general, AT support is much better on GNOME than on Windows.
This is no limitation within OpenOffice.org, but in Windows AT, which concentrates on other things, not on Java Accessibility.

* Windows, Screen Reader
** ZoomText 7.11, 8.12, 9.x
** JAWS 6.2, 7.x

* Windows, Screen Magnifier
** ZoomText 7.11, 8.12, 9.x

* Windows, On Screen keyboard
** Probably all, because they just send Windows messages

* GNOME, Screen Reader
** Orca
** Gnopernicus

* GNOME, Screen Magnifier
** Gnopernicus
** (Orca)

* GNOME, On Screen keyboard
** GOK
** Dasher

Accessibility

2006-10-31T15:45:11Z

Malte Timmermann:

OpenOffice.org has support for various Accessibility aspects:

Keyboard navigation, scheming, AT support and much more.

Details can be found here: http://ui.openoffice.org/accessibility/whitepaper.html.

There is a mailing list which can be used for user questions and comments, as well as for developer related things.

Please subscribe to accessibility@ui.openoffice.org, or have a look into http://ui.openoffice.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=accessibility.

== OpenOffice.org AT support ==

OpenOffice.org exposes it's information to AT via the Java Accessibility API (JAA) on Windows, and via GNOME Accessibility API (ATK) on Linux/Solaris with GNOME.
This way OpenOffice.org should be accessible with AT supporting JAA or ATK.

More details about this can be found here: http://ui.openoffice.org/accessibility/at-support.html.

'''Setup your system, Windows'''

To use Java Accessibility, a current version of Java (v1.5 or newer) must be installed.
This can be found here: http://java.sun.com/

Verify that OpenOffice.org uses the correct version: Choose menu Tools/Options/Java.

You also need the “Java Access Bridge for Windows v2”, which can be found here: http://java.sun.com/products/accessbridge/

You also have to activate AT support in OpenOffice.org: Choose menu Tools/Options/Accessibility and check “Support assistive technology tools”.

'''Setup your system, GNOME'''

Everything you need is included in current versions of GNOME.

Activate AT support globally: Preferences/Accessibility/Assistive Technology Support, check “Enable assistive technologies”
More information can be found here: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/

'''AT that works'''

In general, AT support is much better on GNOME than on Windows.
This is no limitation within OpenOffice.org, but in Windows AT, which concentrates on other things, not on Java Accessibility.

* Windows, Screen Reader
** ZoomText 7.11, 8.12, 9.x
** JAWS 6.2, 7.x

* Windows, Screen Magnifier
** ZoomText 7.11, 8.12, 9.x

* Windows, On Screen keyboard
** Probably all, because they just send Windows messages

* GNOME, Screen Reader
** Orca
** Gnopernicus

* GNOME, Screen Magnifier
** Gnopernicus
** (Orca)

* GNOME, On Screen keyboard
** GOK
** Dasher

Accessibility

2006-10-31T15:43:32Z

Malte Timmermann:

OpenOffice.org has support for various Accessibility aspects:

Keyboard navigation, scheming, AT support and much more.

Details can be found here: http://ui.openoffice.org/accessibility/whitepaper.html.

== OpenOffice.org AT support ==

OpenOffice.org exposes it's information to AT via the Java Accessibility API (JAA) on Windows, and via GNOME Accessibility API (ATK) on Linux/Solaris with GNOME.
This way OpenOffice.org should be accessible with AT supporting JAA or ATK.

More details about this can be found here: http://ui.openoffice.org/accessibility/at-support.html.

'''Setup your system, Windows'''

To use Java Accessibility, a current version of Java (v1.5 or newer) must be installed.
This can be found here: http://java.sun.com/

Verify that OpenOffice.org uses the correct version: Choose menu Tools/Options/Java.

You also need the “Java Access Bridge for Windows v2”, which can be found here: http://java.sun.com/products/accessbridge/

You also have to activate AT support in OpenOffice.org: Choose menu Tools/Options/Accessibility and check “Support assistive technology tools”.

'''Setup your system, GNOME'''

Everything you need is included in current versions of GNOME.

Activate AT support globally: Preferences/Accessibility/Assistive Technology Support, check “Enable assistive technologies”
More information can be found here: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/

'''AT that works'''

In general, AT support is much better on GNOME than on Windows.
This is no limitation within OpenOffice.org, but in Windows AT, which concentrates on other things, not on Java Accessibility.

* Windows, Screen Reader
** ZoomText 7.11, 8.12, 9.x
** JAWS 6.2, 7.x

* Windows, Screen Magnifier
** ZoomText 7.11, 8.12, 9.x

* Windows, On Screen keyboard
** Probably all, because they just send Windows messages

* GNOME, Screen Reader
** Orca
** Gnopernicus

* GNOME, Screen Magnifier
** Gnopernicus
** (Orca)

* GNOME, On Screen keyboard
** GOK
** Dasher

Accessibility

2006-10-31T15:31:03Z

Malte Timmermann:

== OpenOffice.org AT support ==

OpenOffice.org exposes it's information to AT via the Java Accessibility API (JAA) on Windows, and via GNOME Accessibility API (ATK) on Linux/Solaris with GNOME.
This way OpenOffice.org should be accessible with AT supporting JAA or ATK.

More details about this can be found here: http://ui.openoffice.org/accessibility/at-support.html.

'''Setup your system, Windows'''

To use Java Accessibility, a current version of Java (v1.5 or newer) must be installed.
This can be found here: http://java.sun.com/

Verify that OpenOffice.org uses the correct version: Choose menu Tools/Options/Java.

You also need the “Java Access Bridge for Windows v2”, which can be found here: http://java.sun.com/products/accessbridge/

You also have to activate AT support in OpenOffice.org: Choose menu Tools/Options/Accessibility and check “Support assistive technology tools”.

'''Setup your system, GNOME'''

Everything you need is included in current versions of GNOME.

Activate AT support globally: Preferences/Accessibility/Assistive Technology Support, check “Enable assistive technologies”
More information can be found here: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/

'''AT that works'''

In general, AT support is much better on GNOME than on Windows.
This is no limitation within OpenOffice.org, but in Windows AT, which concentrates on other things, not on Java Accessibility.

* Windows, Screen Reader
** ZoomText 7.11, 8.12, 9.x
** JAWS 6.2, 7.x

* Windows, Screen Magnifier
** ZoomText 7.11, 8.12, 9.x

* Windows, On Screen keyboard
** Probably all, because they just send Windows messages

* GNOME, Screen Reader
** Orca
** Gnopernicus

* GNOME, Screen Magnifier
** Gnopernicus
** (Orca)

* GNOME, On Screen keyboard
** GOK
** Dasher

Performance Related Test Documents

2006-02-10T15:19:37Z

Malte Timmermann:

Some 'specialized' documents can be found on http://tools.openoffice.org/performance/testdocs-odf.zip

Certificate Detection

2006-02-10T14:31:27Z

Malte Timmermann:

On Windows, OOo will use certificates from the personal key store.

On all other platforms, OOo detects the default mozilla profile.

Detection order is
1) Thunderbird
2) Mozilla
3) Firefox
4) Default (what ever that means...)

Unfortunately, there is no option to choose an other profile, but the location can be overwritten with the environment variable MOZILLA_CERTIFICATE_FOLDER

You can check the detection with this small basic script:

<pre>
Option Explicit

Sub MozProfile
Dim oMozBootstrap as Object
Dim sMsg as String
Dim sDefault as String

oMozBootstrap = createUnoService( "com.sun.star.mozilla.MozillaBootstrap" )

sMsg = "OpenOffice.org Mozilla Profile Detection" + Chr$(10) + Chr$(10)
CheckMozProfile( oMozBootstrap, "Thunderbird", com.sun.star.mozilla.MozillaProductType.Thunderbird, sMsg, sDefault )
sMsg = sMsg + Chr$(10)
CheckMozProfile( oMozBootstrap, "Mozilla", com.sun.star.mozilla.MozillaProductType.Mozilla, sMsg, sDefault )
sMsg = sMsg + Chr$(10)
CheckMozProfile( oMozBootstrap, "Firefox", com.sun.star.mozilla.MozillaProductType.Firefox, sMsg, sDefault )
sMsg = sMsg + Chr$(10)
CheckMozProfile( oMozBootstrap, "Default", com.sun.star.mozilla.MozillaProductType.Default, sMsg, sDefault )
sMsg = sMsg + Chr$(10)
sMsg = sMsg + "The first detected path will be used for certificates:" + Chr$(10)
if Len( sDefault ) > 0 Then
sMsg = sMsg + sDefault
else
sMsg = sMsg + "No profile found!"
end if
sMsg = sMsg + Chr$(10) + Chr$(10) + "You can overwrite the path with environment variable MOZILLA_CERTIFICATE_FOLDER" + Chr$(10) + " "

MsgBox sMsg,64

End Sub

Sub CheckMozProfile( oMozBootstrap, TypeName, TypeID, sMsg, sDefault )
Dim sProfile as String
Dim sPath as String

sMsg = sMsg + TypeName + ":" + Chr$(10) + "Profile name: "
sProfile = oMozBootstrap.getDefaultProfile(TypeID)
if Len( sProfile ) > 0 Then
sMsg = sMsg + sProfile
sPath = oMozBootstrap.getProfilePath(TypeID, sProfile )
sMsg = sMsg + Chr$(10) + "Profile path: " + sPath + Chr$(10)
if Len( sDefault ) = 0 Then
sDefault = sPath
end if

else
sMsg = sMsg + "NOT FOUND" + Chr$(10)
endif
End Sub
</pre>

Digital Signatures

2006-02-10T14:24:54Z

Malte Timmermann:

* [[Certificate Detection]]