[Kde-accessibility] OpenOffice and KDE4 Accessiibilty [was: Orca/KDE Integration]

[Éric Bischoff]

Le Vendredi 1 Septembre 2006 19:21, vous avez écrit :
> [ Éric Bischoff ]
>
> > I do not understand the word "lineal". I don't understand to which
> > screenshot you are referring to.
>
> I was accidentally using a German word, sorry. The correct English word is
> "ruler".

OK.

> The toolbar handles and the combo boxes have a black frame, but this might
> be related to the KDE style you are using. What happens if you select the
> "High Contrast" widget style in KDE?

See
	http://opensource.bureau-cornavin.com/contrast.html

The toolbar handles and the combo box frame are invisible (black on black), 
but now in KMail I can't see the toolbar handles nor the combo boxes frames 
either. So OpenOffice.org and KDE basically behave the same in this 
respect...

The ruler remains black on white background. So it becomes the thing you see 
the most on the screen. It's still usable though.

> The scroll bar has very bad contrast. In the settings dialog, the list on
> the left side is invisible when use using white text on a black background.

The scroll bar is invisible, yes. But in KMail it's the same problem.

The tree view in the settings has completly disappeared, yes :-(. I would say 
this one is a serious problem. Perharps we could file an issue in IssueZilla 
against this propblem. Something like:

=======================================
"Accessibility: in high contrast mode, the settings tree view is invisible"

The KDE high contrast mode uses white text on black background everywhere.
OpenOffice.org's settings dialog uses a tree view that always uses black text.
The combination of both is black text on black background, which is invisible.

Suggested solution is to use variable text color for the tree view on the left 
side of the settings dialog."
=======================================

Would you agree with that description? If yes I let you submit it in 
IssueZilla ;-). The address is
	http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectIssues

But as you can see, it's an accessibility problem, not something which has 
something to do with KDE integration. I think you could hunt such problems 
with your trained eye, and file bug reports in OpenOffice.org's IssueZilla. 
They would hopefully be assigned to User Interface people and be solved 
quickly. For myself, I would like to concentrate on integration issues. Would 
that be okay?

> > > > What do you call "the text itself" ? The document ?
>
> Yes.

OK.

> > All the settings there apply to OOo itself, not to the documents it
> > handles.
>
> The setting relates to how the document is shown (but not to how it is
> printed, if I understand this correctly). Just set another value there to
> test it.

It changes its color. Hmmm. You are right. I must admit I don't fully 
understand the meaning of that setting.

Anyway, this setting is not picked from KDE, and that looks to me like a bug. 
A real KDE integration bug, this time... I can file the issue, if you want.



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