Tom, For those who aren't familiar with this product, LibreOffice is a free, open source Office suite, similar in capabilities to the well-known Microsoft Office. Its word processor is similar to Word in many respects but is referred to as Writer, their Excel-like spreadsheet is called Calc and it contains other programs as well. It may be appealing to some for several reasons. First, it's absolutely free; no licensing, no registration or activation required. It can open and save in Microsoft's formats, meaning that it can open Word files or save spreadsheets in Excel's own format. It also uses the traditional menu bar like Office 2003: no ribbons.
To be honest, when it comes to accessibility it's adequate and usable but it doesn't provide the stellar performance we're used to with Microsoft's Office products. It performs quite well with NVDA and, as of several versions ago, usable with JAWS. It never worked with Window-Eyes, crashing every time Window-Eyes was running although I haven't tested it with the newest LibreOffice and Window-eyes 9.5. PCWorld has a brief review of LibreOffice 5.2 at http://www.pcworld.com/article/3102849/software-productivity/libreoffice-52- includes-classified-documents-and-a-streamlined-interface.html You can read more about LibreOffice and download it at www.LibreOffice.org HTh, Kurt -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Tom Clary Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2016 5:31 PM To: jaws-users-list Subject: [JAWS-Users] ms office substitute my laptop doesn't have ms office on it, and need a ms office type program on it, that works with jaws 17. anyone have any suggestions? For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
