Some of you might read the press about Apache Foundation taking over
Open Office and they just released a new version 3.4.1 (point release
from 3.4.0). While there is 'some' accessibility much of it was missing.
So I could make a new Writer document, but once I was in there anything
I typed was not read. But I could then go back with VO and interact with
the text and get it to read, but VO wasn't following my edit point
around. If I tried to close the document it gave me a
save/discard/cancel dialog. I could VO-arrow around to pick the buttons
but tab was not followed. So I could be on Discard, hit tab to move
focus to the Cancel button and VO says nothing. So it seems like
somebody has been working on it but it isn't done yet. So save you 166MB
downloading for another time.
Likewise LibreOffice 3.5.7 came out October 5 so I gave that a whirl but
it fared no better. Not surprising as they come from the same codebase.
NeoOffice now charges $10 just to try the current version but from the
discussion forums it sounds like they don't have voiceover working
either. So for now it seems that iWorks and the other 3rd party text
editors still rule for document processing.
CB
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