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1. Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 15:43:06 JST Rachel Greenham

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   Accidentally hit (and discovered) the Accessibility Check feature in @libreoffice At first it seemed, every time I used italics, it faulted me for “The text formatting conveys additional meaning." I'd be quite happy to use something more semantic. there is an “Emphasis" character style, for instance. I can even set it to turn on when I do cmd-I. But not turn off again. So that's useless. Unless someone can tell me how cmd-I can toggle it. (and bold/strong-emphasis for that matter)

   • LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 15:43:04 JST LibreOffice

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     @StrangeNoises Hi! It's hard for us to help without any details about your setup (LibreOffice version, operating system etc.) If you think it's a bug, please let our QA community know at https://bugs.documentfoundation.org with some details about your setup, so that they can investigate. Thanks!

   • Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 15:43:05 JST Rachel Greenham

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     • LibreOffice

     @libreoffice accessibility check faulting every single damn paragraph when all you've been doing is typing, is useless. the only sane reaction is, "sod that then”.

   • Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 15:43:05 JST Rachel Greenham

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     • LibreOffice

     @libreoffice ok, maybe I've wrangled the cmd-I, cmd-B to toggle emphasis and strong-emphasis respectively (it being necessary to restart the app for the toggle to work). Let's try living with that for a bit.

     It's customary to also use italic text for certain foreign or out-of-context words. Semantically I wonder what that should be called? Emphasis seems wrong.

   • Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 15:43:06 JST Rachel Greenham

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     @libreoffice ... but it gets worse. Because it turns out, the Accessibility Check was faulting *every single paragraph* for the same thing, even for the majority that had no direct formatting, or even character styles, in them at all that could be revealed by the user interface.

     So basically, that's useless. Useless false positives unless it can explain to me what's wrong.

   • Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 15:43:06 JST Rachel Greenham

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     • LibreOffice

     @libreoffice I mean, it would mark a whole paragraph and say "there's direct formatting in here" and I'd be thinking "no there bloody isn't; nothing that I've done, and nothing visible” But if I do a manual clear direct formatting, the warning disappears, so there *was* something. But it was nothing *I* did. So wtf? *Any* manual fix for this is unscalable. The default action should be correct.