[stylist] Using VoiceOver in Libre Office

[April Brown]

Hi Bridgit,

     It is a headache.  Of course, a year ago, I couldn't get VoiceOver to do anything.  Other than turn on or off of course.

     Libre Office is the free open source version of Word, with more flexibility than the Microsoft Office products.  I've enjoyed working with its easy to use interface for a few years now.

      I tried to learn Jaws a few years ago.  I don't think I was even able to figure out how to turn it on.  And it is cost prohibitive, at over a fifth of my yearly income, when I was working.  I'm not working anymore, so it is really cost impossible now!  I can't imagine paying out that much every time a program upgrades.  

      I'm sure it's something simple I just don't know to click on or off when I open it.  It has to be.  I really wish there were user manuals these days.  It would help so much!

April Brown

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> On Dec 31, 2014, at 6:10 PM, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter <bkpollpeter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> April,
> 
> This sounds like more of a headache than anything else, grin. I've never
> heard of Libre Office, but JAWS, in my opinion, is not this complicated, nor
> does it have the issues you describe like only reading a few words at a
> time, or skipping back to the top of a document when doing a search. And you
> can save MS Word docs as RTF, PDF or other formats too.
> 
> Is Libre Office an Apple thing?
> 
> Bridgit
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of April Brown
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> Subject: [stylist] Using VoiceOver in Libre Office
> 
> Hello,
> 
>     I am finally making progress learning VoiceOver.  I primarily do my
> writing in Libre Office because I can save my files in all necessary formats
> (.doc, .rtf, pdf, and more).  I am still having difficulty figuring out the
> basics of reading, writing, and editing in Libre Office.  Does anyone else
> use this program?  Why does it only read a word, or a few words, at a time
> regardless of rotor setting?  Why does it always jump back to the top of the
> document when using the find function, rather than going to the word typed
> in the find box?
> 
>     I am still woking on publishing, and relying more and more on
> VoiceOver, and less and less on my partial eye.
> 
> April Brown
> 
> Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide behind.
> 
> aprilbrownshade at gmail.com
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