Bug 149535

Summary:	Add highlighting (background color) to options for marking misspelled words in the spelling checker
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	[REDACTED] <noreply+28110>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	gailand, heiko.tietze, rafael.palma.lima
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	accessibility
Version:	Inherited From OOo
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/change-wavy-line-to-text-highlight-during-spell-grammar-check/78483/3
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103337 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47848
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Bug Blocks:	96000, 102187

Description [REDACTED] 2022-06-12 19:03:21 UTC

This was brought up in the topic https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/change-wavy-line-to-text-highlight-during-spell-grammar-check/78483/3 in The Ask site. Some visually impaired people have trouble with wavy underlining and would be happy with a colored background. So - could you add an option to highlight text instead of wavy underlining it?

Comment 1 Rafael Lima 2022-06-14 15:11:27 UTC

Sounds a good idea to me. Let's hear from the UX team.

Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2022-06-15 09:26:12 UTC

Could be an option similar to what we have for track changes (tools > options > writer > changes). Objection to another rather complex option?

Comment 3 Rafael Lima 2022-06-15 14:58:53 UTC

(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> Could be an option similar to what we have for track changes (tools >
> options > writer > changes). Objection to another rather complex option?

IMO this is a good idea. The new options dialog should be under Tool - Options - LibreOffice - Language Settings, so that it is applicable to all LO applications.

Heiko, we should also give the option to keep the existing behavior (wavy red / blue lines).

Also, the dialog you gave as example allows to define the text "Attributes" and text "Color", but it would be nice to have a "Background color" as well, so that the highlighted text stands out even more. This way we could have an implementation closer to what was suggested in the ask.libreoffice link (see Comment #0), which looks nice IMO.

Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2022-06-17 08:45:28 UTC

(In reply to Rafael Lima from comment #3)
> Heiko, we should also give the option to keep the existing behavior (wavy
> red / blue lines).

Yes, this attribute needs to be added to have it as default.