| Summary: | Add Luciole font to support accessibility | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze> |
| Component: | LibreOffice | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | c_strobbe-fdo, marc, sophi |
| Priority: | medium | Keywords: | accessibility |
| Version: | 7.1.0.0.alpha0+ | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| URL: | https://www.luciole-vision.com/luciole-en.html | ||
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| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
| Bug Depends on: | 91886 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 113305 | ||
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Description
Heiko Tietze
2020-09-10 12:32:22 UTC
I am re-posting my comment from the accessibility mailing list. I support the suggestion of adding the Luciole font along with the LibreOffice package. While it may seem that this font would be for use of only a small proportion of users, on the contrary, adding the font would benefit more than one would suspect such as: * for visually impaired people * for jurisdictions where installation of software on any publicly funded systems must show options for accessibility adaptations * for jurisdictions where installation of software on any privately funded systems must follow accessibility legislation or corporate requirements where software must show options for accessibility adaptations On these two last points, more and more, various jurisdictions are requiring that software also cover accessibility options in software used in government agencies. Adding such fonts would show the LibreOffice's resolve being serious contenders in the choice of office suite for government agencies. The same can also be said for any corporate entity where they may have any specific requirements where any installed software have accessibility adaptation available to corporate users. More and more, government jurisdictions are expecting any software adopted for use in publicly funded agencies also have accessibility options for users. A good example is the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) which outlines specifics with regards to accessibility with software services -- the act is now law in Ontario. [https://www.ontario.ca/page/making-government-services-accessible] . This pretty well ensures that any corporate entity must fall in line with the AODA. So, from the point of the LibreOffice suite and project. If we are to compete for a place at government and corporate levels and procurement, or even desktop level, having accessibility options available "right out the box" would no doubt help with its adoption. I would hope that for the sake of all other non-European languages, that similar projects involving specifically created open sourced fonts (Arabic, Chinese, etc.) similar to the Luciole font project would also follow. Perhaps at that point, the LibreOffice project could then offer a separate font package aimed to accessibility needs. But for now, adding the Luciole font, it surely would not add that much to the size of the LibreOffice package? If added to the package, then we could make a big deal of it on our blog making a good case for the project being supportive of accessibility needs. Marc We discussed this in the ESC and decided to wait until installation of fonts is optional (of course Windows only). To give you an update, I discussed this issue with Jonathan from typographies.fr and explained him that Luciole should be installed at OS level and why. He will now contact the occupational therapists who are in charge of providing material to visually impaired students. |