Hey.
I know that in the corporate world, microsoft Office is the standard. A lot of people have it at home, too, and it works well with JAWS and other screen-readers. Unless you can get a good deal, though, it's not cheap to get the full professional Office suite. There is at least one alternative: Open Office, and while I have MS Office 2010 on this machine, I also have Open Office, and I recently started playing with the word processor. It at least seems very accessible and straightforward, and there are keyboard shortcuts. I'm using version 4.1 I believe, and it's from 2016. Interestingly, it has the old-style menu bar, and not ribbons. I think this would make a lot of blind users quite happy. It will save documents in various formats, including old Microsoft Word ones (going back to 2003 I believe), for those who want compatibility with the Microsoft product, which I suppose is pretty essential. Just some basic thoughts for now. Just wondering if anyone uses it? It also contains spreadsheet software, a presentation system that I guess is not dissimilar to Powerpoint, a database program and something for drawing. No e-mail client apparently. As yet, I am not sure how well any of these programs work. Seems worth worth the test drive though. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
