Isn't there some port of open/libreoffice specifically designed for the Mac called Neo Office or something like that? Might that work for him?
Alex M -----Original Message----- From: Tom Davies [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 11:07 AM To: [email protected]; Patrick Adams Subject: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice and VoiceOver Hi :) I am just forwarding this to the Accessibility List just in case anyone here knows something Alex doesn't. Alex is usually very up-to-date but i can always hope that things are better on Mac. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Alexander Thurgood <hidden> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2012, 16:38 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice and VoiceOver > >Le 29/11/12 16:21, Patrick Adams a écrit : > >Hi Patrick, > >> >> Please someone tell me this maybe a faulty installation and what I can do about that (yes I can download again but don't want to waste time if this lack of accessibility for VoiceOver is reality. Or perhaps there are some settings that need altering, I could not make any sense of the settings window, nothing worked and nothing led to anywhere. >> >> Can anyone help? > >Sorry to disappoint you, but LibreOffice is not "fully accessible" on >the Mac. Your experience pretty much sums up the limited support for >people with disabilities on that platform attempting to use LibreOffice. > >In addition, using VoiceOver and other accessibility tools with >LibreOffice is known to cause random crashes. The reason is that the >accessibility calls rely on an obsolescent programming interface which >has since officially been declared deprecated by Apple, so until someone >within the project manages to convince a Mac developer to join and help >fix those issues, your problems will not be solved. There are or were >plans to integrate IBM's developments for Symphony of a newer >accessibility API into LibreOffice, but that has not happened for the >moment as far as I know, and yet we keep hearing about it every now and >then. > > >For the time being, your best bet is to stick to the application that >currently works best for you, but I sincerely doubt that that >application is LibreOffice. > > > >Alex > > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
