Eric:
Thanks for the reply.
Microsoft is on the verge of having a simplified reader as it was in one of their beta test units for XP in the accessibility section. Scuttlebutt is Microsoft will have a full-fledged reader in one of their next upgrades of XP. While it may not be within the scope of Open Office, it would be instill a competitive edge for Oo.
Stu (Bogus)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Éric Savary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [ui-dev] Accessibility
Hi Sandra and Bogus,
Sandra, I once contacted you on the French mailing list as you first reported the Calc freeze with JAWS.
Yes, we could reproduce it and it and there is now an issue on this:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=45917
Bogus, it is not in the scope of OOo to have its own reader (just like readers company don't produce office suites....).
Of course, we are staedily working on improving the collaboration OOo//readers, but some of them, like JAWS have their own bugs that *we* cannot fix. It often depends on the (good) use of the Java Access Bridge by those tools. If they sometimes don't use the info we provide over the Java API we can escalate it but those companies are not obliged to fix their bugs for us...
It's not so simple...
Regards Éric
Bogus wrote:
Sandra:
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.
Stu (Bogus)
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