Description: Setting for example a border, or a background highlight color in a character sty;e in Writer, leads to the a11y checker mistakenly report an "The text formatting conveys additional meaning" error. See attached bugdoc - the trigger seems to be the kind of character formatting change, not the fact that character styles are used. Steps to Reproduce: 1. load bugdoc 2. enable automatic a11y checking 3. switch to a11y sidebar, notice the warning Actual Results: a11y sidebar issues spurious warning Expected Results: a11y sidebar does not warn about using styles (as compared to direct formatting) Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: -
Created attachment 188667 [details] Test doc with problematic char style
Seems like the warning is gone if I remove the character highlighting from the "Border Example" style.
Balazs Varga committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/47ca3f1f762352b488d58b3bf23d5776576f1cca tdf#156545 - a11y - fix warns about background character style formattings It will be available in 24.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Balazs Varga committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-7-6": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/7109110a6494e9af2fa8aa9291d5f10f23f3f26b tdf#156545 - a11y - fix warns about background character style formattings It will be available in 7.6.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.