As has been discussed before, Office 2008 is not accessible. So with the
announcement of Open Office 2.4 being released I thought I'd give the
other ones a try. Open Office 2.4 is the last Mac release that will
require X11 so this should certainly help them on their way to becoming
accessible. I had to hunt a bit but I found the Open Office 3.0beta
download for Mac which is now a native app here:
porting.openoffice.org/download/aqua.html
162MB later (400MB uncompressed) I found that not much has changed. The
pull-down menus are accessible but my quick test of opening up a new
word processing document showed that the document is not readable (or
reachable) with voiceover. That's assuming you could get past the silent
initial setup wizard. Just for the fun of it I also updated NeoOffice
to 2.2.3 patch 1 with similar results. Nothing to see here. Please move on.
CB
