I'm not a programmer, but do work with the blind in Ohio. MS Office
and Open Office have their glitches with JAWS and othe programs. I would like to
see a speech program embedded in Open Office as part of the accessibility
section.
If Open Office is to be any good at all, it MUST be accessible to JAWS and
other readers.
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Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 8:33
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Subject: Re: [ui-dev] Accessibility
I agree with you Bogus.
In France, gouvernement departments employ a lot
of blind people and use OpenOffice. But as it isn't accessible with JAWS, this
blind people must use Microsoft office and have a lot of problem with document
convertion. For example, they cannot open .sxw document with
Word.
With JAWS, the major accessible problem is Calc.
The table is to big for the memory of JAWS and JAWS stop running immediately.
Do you know if this problem will be solve in the
next version? Are there some active research about the accessibility of
OpenOffice and how can we participate to it?
Thank you for your attention.
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Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 2:10
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Subject: [ui-dev] Accessibility
I would like to see the next beta build being more accessible to
the blind. More state rehabilitation agencies are purchasing JAWS and Window
Eyes as a reading text. Therefore, the program should be accessible to
allow them to "read" and "talk" to the person who is blind.
If a reading program for the blind could be imbedded, that would be
great. XP currently has a limited reading feature.
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