When there is a text with parts of it in e.g. bold, the user cannot search for the bold text using VO-Cmd-B. Same for italics, underlined etc.
Just adding that is the case even with Change-Id I21a633af0bf426759f639435581fcd3bfeafa598 applied.
I posted on Apple's accessibility mailing list since I have not been able to track down the cause in reasonable amount of time. Here is a link to the post: http://prod.lists.apple.com/archives/accessibility-dev/2013/Aug/msg00005.html
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/5334/
Boris Dušek committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=9c8831244062202e9066b97be7082e72e1194866 fdo#67680: Impossible to search for text attributes with VoiceOver The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Boris Dušek committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-1": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=788d11aee3b59bb8428beae231d85f0c7d0235ce&h=libreoffice-4-1 fdo#67680: Impossible to search for text attributes with VoiceOver It will be available in LibreOffice 4.1.2. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.