[Trainer-talk] Accessibility - OpenOffice.org Wiki

[Scott Berry]

Yeah I think it is.  Because if you don't have accessibility Bridge than
most of OO is not accessible.  I tried it a couple months ago and the
accessibility was not there for it.  But now that I use Linux full time
I have not had any trouble with OO.

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 07:54 -0600, Chris R. Johnson wrote:
> Is Java Access Bridge still necessary to install on a Windows computer 
> to run OpenOffice (in JAVA)?  If so here is the link from Oracle: 
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/index-jsp-136191.html
> 
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> > From: trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
> > [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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