Is Libre Office accessible on Mac

Tried this on Windows using JAWS and it was a shocker. It may have been accessible but it constantly froze the laptop and could only be shutdown with task manager. Couldn't navigate it at all. Going back about 2 years mind so may have changed.

The last time I tried it maybe about 1, 2 years ago, it wasn't accessible. I don't know if things have changed since then.

0 accessibility, VO doesn't work well with qt. It's great on windows on my end though, as well as the latest of gnome wayland with orca (writer).

I'm going to sound like a broken record again, but here's my advice. Try it.

It's free, and simple enough to install. I just did it, and did a small test in Writer.

You can write text. You can read the text back, at least moving by line with the arrow keys. However, you get some odd things, e.g. I wrote something like "Do we get line reading?", and when I went to that line, it read something like, "insertion at beginning of word, 'reading?'", and then read the line.

VO-a doesn't seem to work to read the whole document, it seems to read the line you're on. So I mean, you can at least do very basic stuff with it, after a fashion. I'm not saying you'll enjoy it or even want to use it, it seems like there are better options, e.g. Pages. But really, just saying something like, no it's not accessible, doesn't really tell us much.

Maybe that's me, because I assume if you say it's not accessible, I take it to mean you're going to get a window where you can't do anything, you can't see the contents, don't get menus, things like that. You can't use it because none of the default accessibility stuff works with it.

I doubt I'll do any more testing, I don't really need an office suite, and if I do I'll start with Apple's stuff until I need something else for some reason. But I was curious to see what would happen. I realize that "accessibility" means more than "I can type into an edit field", hence why I said you very well might not want to use it.

I've personally never been a fan of the free office suites because they use Java, and honestly I've found very little Java to be either accessible or useful. YMMV, naturally. But I'm also throwing this out there because maybe somebody who *does* need an office suite and is into testing and stuff might give feedback and the like that could make it more accessible in the future. The more options the better, i say.