[Trainer-talk] accessible bookkeeping/accounting software- Accessibility - OpenOffice.org Wiki

[David Goldfield]

If my memory is correct Window-eyes did a good job reading the cell data 
in Symphony but I can't remember how it handled OpenOffice Calc.


Fred Wurtzel wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> How about Window-Eyes?  Have you tried it, and if so, does it work?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Fred
>
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> [mailto:trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David Goldfield
> Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 9:39 PM
> To: List for teachers and trainers of adaptive technology
> Subject: Re: [Trainer-talk] accessible bookkeeping/accounting software-
> Accessibility - OpenOffice.org Wiki
>
> I have been doing some testing using the latest version of OpenOffice
> with screen readers.  For some reason, I am experiencing consistent
> crashes whenever I try to enter data using OpenOffice Calc and JAWS
> 11.0.1467.  I have emailed Freedom Scientific's tech support about this
> issue.  OpenOffice Calc works very well with NVDA 2010.2 beta 2.  In
> fact, NVDA seems to handle Calc better than Excel in that it identifies
> the name of the active sheet when you use control-pageup and
> control-pagedown to move from one sheet to another.  NVDA doesn't
> automatically read the same info when moving from sheet to sheet using
> Excel.  I would recommend that people give IBM Lotus Symphony a test
> spin as their spreadsheet seems to work better.  I will warn you that
> the automatic spellchecker for both OpenOffice and Symphony has some
> access issues in that it is very hard to identify the incorrect word
> with speech.  The dialogs are fairly accessible but it isn't easy to
> always figure out which word is being flagged as wrong.  Also, some of
> the Symphony dialogs in the latest beta don't always allow the keyboard
> focus to move to the OK and Cancel buttons when using the tab key.  When
> this happens it is necessary to press ctrl-tab to move to these
> buttons.  I have sent IBM a report on these issues in their feedback form.
>
> David Goldfield.
>
> Fred Wurtzel wrote:
>    
>> Hello,
>>
>> Since Window-Eyes is not mentioned, does this mean it is not compatible?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Warm Regards,
>>
>> Fred Wurtzel
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Blaine Clark
>> Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 12:51 AM
>> To: trainer-talk at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: Re: [Trainer-talk] accessible bookkeeping/accounting software -
>> Accessibility - OpenOffice.org Wiki
>>
>> If you can set up spreadsheets correctly and accurately, check out
>> OpenOffice. Here's a list of accessible programs it is compatible with;
>>
>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Accessibility
>>
>> * Windows, Screen Reader
>> # ZoomText 7.11, 8.12, 9.x
>> # JAWS 6.2, 7.x
>> # NVDA (open source!)
>>
>> * Windows, Screen Magnifier
>> # ZoomText 7.11, 8.12, 9.x
>>
>> * Windows, On Screen keyboard
>> # Probably all, because they just send Windows messages
>>
>> * GNOME, Screen Reader
>> # Orca
>> # Gnopernicus
>>
>> * GNOME, Screen Magnifier
>> # Gnopernicus
>> # (Orca)
>>
>> * GNOME, On Screen keyboard
>> # GOK
>> # Dasher
>>
>> * Mac OS X
>> # VoiceOver
>>
>> OpenOffice is free, nearly 100% compatible with MS Office suite and is
>> cross-platform.
>>
>>
>>
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