[nfbcs] OpenOffice Accessibility

[E.J. Zufelt]

Yep,

When I respond to these lists I'm under the presumption that everyone  
is using JAWS.  Which is a bad presumption to make.

The feedback that I heard is that Lotus Symphony works with JAWS.  I  
tried it myself with VoiceOver and experienced the same behaviour as  
you.

Sorry about the ambiguity of my first message,
Everett

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On 24-Jul-09, at 12:24 AM, Ryan Mann wrote:

> I just tried Lotus Symphony and it doesn't seem to be accessible.  I  
> tried it on both Windows with System Access and on Mac OS 10 with  
> Voiceover.  When I opened a new document from the file menu, neither  
> screen reader would read whenever I typed in the document.  I went  
> no further since my thinking is that if a screen reader won't read  
> what I type in a document, the office suite is not accessible.
> Jul 23, 2009, at 12:05 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
>
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>> I haven't tried, but have heard good things about IBM Lotus  
>> Symphony http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home
>>
>>
>> Everett
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>> On 23-Jul-09, at 11:39 AM, Joe Orozco wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Sorry for the additional post, but has anyone had success with a  
>>> MS Word
>>> alternative?  I suppose OpenOffice is the best known gorilla out  
>>> there but
>>> am not sure about its accessibility with JAWS 10.  I'm looking for  
>>> something
>>> a little more robust than your traditional text editor minus the
>>> instability, slow speed and security lapses of Microsoft.  Any  
>>> suggestions
>>> would be very much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Joe Orozco
>>>
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