Hi Brad thanks for what you wrote on the list as I was looking into this for a friend who has a windows 8.1 computer and Jaws 15 and wondering if it works atall with Jaws. I know you said you only worked with it for a short time and you thought it was a little like 2003 word. The person I am helping has been using it and I am trying to figure out will this be something for them. If any other listers could answer this I will be happy thanks very much for any help Louise and Hawk
-----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brad Martin via Jfw Sent: May 1, 2014 8:47 PM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: Re: OpenOffice, more accessible? Ok, I decided to be the test subject. I've attempted to use Open Office in the past with marginal success at best. After reading this message, I installed it on my Win 7 machine running the very latest JFW15 update. I have to say, compared to my previous experiences with the product, it runs pretty darn well. There are a few oddities. For instance, when you're arrowing down the menu options under a particular menu (such as Format for instance), occasionally you will hear the words "Menu Bar." I didn't do a very exhaustive test, but I typed a sentence or two, changed the font, etc. I didn't have any trouble with the simple tasks I was performing. I will warn you that while it isn't exactly the same, you will feel like you're in Word 2003. That is to say there is a true menu bar--no ribbons. Again, not an exhaustive review by any means, but that's what I noticed in the fifteen minutes or so that I played with Open Office 4.1 To answer Ted's question, I think the download was 134 Megabytes. The connection was good though, because I downloaded it in roughly a minute. Brad On 5/1/2014 7:24 AM, Adrian Spratt via Jfw wrote: > I'm copying an item from Dean Martineau's Top Tech Tidbits newsletter this morning because it sounds like a step forward for screenreader users. I'd also be curious if OpenOffice really has become more accessible. Note that Dean has stated his newsletter content can be distributed so long as it is given attribution; otherwise, I wouldn't copy it verbatim. > > 1) A step forward has been made in accessibility to free Office suites with the release of OpenOffice 4.1 with built-in iAccessible2 support. Screen readers with this support should, in theory, be able to work with OO out of the box, without the need to install Java Access Bridge. Reportedly, support is best with NVDA, with the most recent update for JAWS, which works in most places and forthcoming versions of Window-Eyes may also have support: > http://www.openoffice.org > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/201405 01/0e14b88b/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
