Bug 166970 - A11Y sidebar does not warn about missing alt text of certain drawing shapes
Summary: A11Y sidebar does not warn about missing alt text of certain drawing shapes
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: target:26.2.0 target:25.8.0.0.beta2
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Depends on:
Blocks: Accessibility-Check
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Reported: 2025-06-12 15:06 UTC by Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
Modified: 2025-06-18 08:01 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
Example file from Word (6.24 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2025-06-12 15:06 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
Details
The document with the accessibility sidebar open (96.89 KB, image/png)
2025-06-12 15:07 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
Details

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Description Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2025-06-12 15:06:44 UTC
Created attachment 201234 [details]
Example file from Word

Attached file has some drawing shapes, which do not have an alt text set.

The accessibility sidebar does not warn about these issues.

1. Open attached file
2. Open the accessibility sidebar
-> There are no warnings about drawing shapes missing their alt text.

Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 87b3b8e6990b394baa74aec8701cd097f6c0c646
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: hu-HU (hu_HU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2025-06-12 15:07:24 UTC
Created attachment 201235 [details]
The document with the accessibility sidebar open
Comment 2 Commit Notification 2025-06-16 06:57:10 UTC
Balazs Varga committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/8a5172f61d703e9ab28329466e3d42a0adb4e987

tdf#166970 sw a11y fix missing no_alt warnings from sidebar

It will be available in 26.2.0.

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.
Comment 3 Commit Notification 2025-06-18 08:01:52 UTC
Balazs Varga committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-25-8":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/1b483ccbff6a67618f8c58cf1b53fd31edf92733

tdf#166970 sw a11y fix missing no_alt warnings from sidebar

It will be available in 25.8.0.0.beta2.

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.