Hello, Inspired by discussions with the Ubuntu Accessibility team, I have written a text-based reader for OpenDocument files. It converts the document to HTML and gives it to a text-based browser like elinks, or lynx. This package is significant in that it allows blind users who use screen readers to easily access documents that would normally be associated with a GUI program like OpenOffice.org.
Currently it works on Linux and probably all Unix. I don't know about Mac OS X though (does OS X come with xsltproc, lynx and Perl?). http://trac.opendocumentfellowship.org/odf2html/wiki/odfreader This package also provides the command-line tool odf2html which does what the name suggests. You can use that to feed the OpenDocument file into any HTML viewer. The package seems to have made a lot of people happy at the Ubuntu Accessibility team and the Japanese OOo team: http://openoffice.s16.xrea.com:8080/pukiwiki/pukiwiki.php?%5B% 5Bodfreader.elinks.links.lynx%5D%5D The reader is fast. I tested the OpenFormula spec (160 page, complex document) on my computer: OOo too 1min to load and open the file, the reader took 2 seconds. It woks best if you have elinks installed, as then you can press "g" to open a new ODF file in a new tab, so it's more accessible. But the script will happily use links or lynx. Cheers, Daniel. -- http://opendocumentfellowship.org "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on unreasonable men." -- George Bernard Shaw
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