André Polykanine@menelion@caneandable.social

the presentation thing from #LibreOffice was not accessible at all when I asked, and more than that, I received a marvelous answer: "Why do you need presentations if you're blind?"

Elena Brescacin@elettrona@poliversity.it

Given that I found an app to create slides in MarkDown: is there an open source solution, accessible to blind, to show those slides in a presentation (conference, office, etc.?
Better if it's self-hostable, but otherwise, decentralized anyways.

No idea if LibreOffice is still accessible, if it has a presentation tool - OnlyOffice is excluded, accessibility isn't optimized at all despite they speak about it. Already had a call with them but no news came since long.

#a11y #accessibility #askFedi #blind #FediHelp #markdown #opensource #selfhosting

Elena Brescacin@elettrona@poliversity.it

Replying to @⁨menelion@caneandable.social⁩

@menelion This ignorance "why do you need to create presentations if you are blind" I didn't expect them from @libreoffice
hope it's been a misunderstanding, because yes, we use presentations at work, and also when speaking in public events (remotely or in person)
sighted folks shouldn't stop investing in accessibility because they ASSUME something is not needed. They should talk first. "don't decide for us without us" is the first, basic, accessibility rule. The starting point even before web content accessibility guidelines and stuff.

en
LibreOffice@libreoffice@fosstodon.org

Replying to @⁨elettrona@poliversity.it⁩

@elettrona @menelion Andre didn't say where or who he asked, so it's impossible to say what's going on there. But we're actively working on accessibility in all components of the suite, to the extent that we even hired a developer focused on accessibility a couple of years ago: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl

blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/07/04/welcome-michael-weghorn-new-developer-at-tdf/
TDF Community BlogWelcome Michael Weghorn, new Developer at TDF - TDF Community BlogThe Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, providing infrastructure and support for the community that makes the suite. Recently, TDF decided to expand its small team with two new Developers – the first (Khaled Hosny) focusing on “complex” text layout languages. Today, we welcome our second Developer, Michael Weghorn, who will initially focus on accessibility improvements. Let’s hear from him… Tell us a bit about yourself! I am from Germany, and have been living in Munich since moving here for my studies in computer science about 12 years ago. I am a free and open source software enthusiast. Before coming to TDF, I was working for the City (administration) of Munich, first being part of their Linux client team – and since 2018 with the main focus on LibreOffice development. I am also a member of the LibreOffice Engineering Steering Committee (ESC). Besides my involvement in LibreOffice, I have also contributed a few changes to other open source projects