Good Morning, Thank you for including us on this list.
John and I started Do It Blind because of the lack of accessibility for blind and visually impaired people for the majority of programs. Although many programs say they are accessible, we have found they are minimally accessible and do not make things very easy or friendly for blind users. John is 100% blind and I am fully sighted. We are a 2 person team taking on the world of accessibility. When we launched doitblind.com, we immediately started receiving requests to script many different programs. We script programs that are most commonly requested and able to be scripted for blind accessibility. When you visit doitblind.com, you will see where you are able to download the different scripts. We currently charge a one time minimal fee for the different programs. We have had requests to make Open Office blind accessible and decided to look into it. What we would like to do is write the scripts to make Open Office accessible. We would then put the scripts on our website and allow people to purchase the scripts which would make Open Office more accessible than it currently is. As far as programing languages are concerned, we do JAWS scripting. As far as 508 compliance goes, we can aid programmers in making screen readers natively supported. If there is currently someone working on accessibility, we would love to be in touch with them. Thank you! We hope everyone has a wonderful afternoon! Jennifer McKinley Co-Founder, Do It Blind, LLC j...@doitblind.com doitblind.com 505-382-2641 From: Steve Yin Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 11:30 PM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org ; orc...@apache.org Cc: Waldorf PC ; j...@doitblind.com Subject: Re: Problems with Accessibility in Open Office Hi Reina, Did you install the Symphony successfully? If not, please try to remove the Symphony work space firstly. The path of it is like this: C:\Documents and Settings\username\IBM\Lotus\Symphony. Thanks. On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton <orc...@apache.org> wrote: Hello Reina, I trust you are well. It would be useful to have the rplauncher.og that is left when your install of Symphony fails to open. Another person has expressed interest in accessibility for blind users. I have included Jennifer on this note. I don't know how much the work of "Do It Blind" is tied to 508 Compliance. Regards, - Dennis > My name is Jennifer McKinley. I am the co-founder of Do It Blind. My > business partner, John Martyn, and I would like to work with Open Office to > make it blind accessible. We have already developed scripts for other very > popular programs like iTunes, Rhapsody, and Spotify. Please visit > doitblind.com for more information on them. Who can we speak with in > regards to making Open Office blind accessible? > Please email me or call me. We appreciate your time. > > Thank you! > > Jennifer McKinley > Co-Founder, Do It Blind, LLC > doitblind.com > 505-382-2641 -----Original Message----- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 13:09 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Cc: 'Waldorf PC' Subject: RE: Problems with Accessibility in Open Office A. I was able to install Symphony 3.0.1 and the Fix Pack 2. I also have obtained the rcplauncher.log, which is rather interesting. B. When you are able to get Symphony operating, there is a feature that will be interesting to understand the accessibility of. There is a sidebar on the right of the Symphony window that includes a variety of dialogs and a way to select among them. This is also a feature that is being worked up for Apache OpenOffice 4.x. [ ... ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Best Regards, Steve Yin
