http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/enFri, 22 Sep 2017 20:57:19 GMThttps://getnikola.com/http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://eyesfreelinux.ninja/posts/libreoffice-calc-and-orca.htmlMike<div><p>The accessibility of LibreOffice is patchy on Windows. One difficult thing with LibreOffice Calc under Windows using the NVDA screen-reader is that on opening a spreadsheet, nothing is spoken until something is entered.</p> <p>So, if you land on A1 and it contains some data, wiping it out by entering something to get it talking is annoying.</p> <p>On Linux, I initially found that when pressing either the up or down arrors, the whole row is spoken, for example "A1 blank B1 blank C1 blank" etc.</p> <p>But then <a href="http://rill.rocks">Rill</a> pointed out to me that Orca now has profiles for each separate application, and pressing control+caps lock+spacebar will bring up Orca preferences for just the focused application.</p> <p>So I did that in LibreOffice Calc and I could then go to the '<em>Speech</em> tab and check-off the check-box for speaking the entire row of a table.</p> <p>Bingo! I would say that now LibreOffice Calc accessibility is better under Linux using Orca than under Windows using NVDA.</p></div>Orcahttp://eyesfreelinux.ninja/posts/libreoffice-calc-and-orca.htmlThu, 07 May 2015 11:16:13 GMT