Windows Accessibility Bridge. This code provides a bridge between our internal Accessibility interfaces (implemented on all visible 'things' in the suite: eg. windows, buttons, entry boxes etc.) - and the Windows MSAA / IAccessible2 COM interfaces that are familiar to windows users and Accessible Technologies (ATs) such as the NVDA screen reader. The code breaks into three bits: source/service/ + the UNO service providing the accessibility bridge. It essentially listens to events from the LibreOffice core and creates and synchronises COM peers for our internal accessibilty objects when events arrive. source/UAccCom/ + COM implementations of the MSAA / IAccessible2 interfaces to provide native peers for the accessbility code. source/UAccCOMIDL/ + COM Interface Definition Language (IDL) for UAccCom. Here is one way of visualising the code / control flow VCL <-> UNO toolkit <-> UNO a11y <-> win a11y <-> COM / IAccessible2 vcl/ <-> toolkit/ <-> accessibility/ <-> winaccessibility/ <-> UAccCom/ Debugging / playing with winaccessibility You need to enable 'experiemental mode' in Tools->Options. After that NVDA should work as expected. In order to use 'accprobe' to debug it is necessary to override the check for whether an AT (like NVDA) is running; to do that use: SAL_FORCE_IACCESSIBLE2=1 soffice.exe -writer Then you can use accprobe to introspect the accessibility hierarchy remotely, checkout: http://accessibility.linuxfoundation.org/a11yweb/util/accprobe/