GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 364772
Orca cannot detect misspelled words on the fly in Openoffice
Last modified: 2010-09-20 10:52:04 UTC
When Creating a document in Open office writer it should be possible to tell if a word is miss-spelled. Visually on the screen the text changes when office thinks that a word is wiss-spelld. It seems as though orca has no way of detecting this attribute.
I've filed issue #71360 again OOo for this problem. See: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=71360 I've adjusted the summary of this bug to reflect that we are currently blocked.
Removing target milestone from [blocked] bugs. We have little control over them, so we're better off letting priority and severity be our guide for poking the related components.
(In reply to comment #1) > I've filed issue #71360 again OOo for this problem. See: > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=71360 The OOo folks have marked this bug as FIXED, so I'm unblocking this bug and marking it as [to verify].
We are now able to identify through the accessible text interface that a word is misspelled.
I just committed a fix to master which I've verified to work with OOo 3.3 (still a developer snapshot). Now, if the user is using the default level of speech verbosity and moves the caret into a word in OOo Writer which is misspelled (as indicated by the red squiggly underline), Orca will announce that the word is misspelled. This attribute will also be announced in speech by default when Orca+f is pressed. Likewise, if braille attribute indication is enabled, misspelled words will by default be indicated in braille. The patch is available here: http://git.gnome.org/browse/orca/patch/?id=3bb20170c43eb7deb55d52e5508bd43271dcc2e4.