Dan wrote: > Unless this argument can be countered quickly, Mass. might have to backtrack > and give up on OpenDocument.
The a11y card is being played by Microsoft, because that is one of the few cards that they _might_ be able to play.. It panders to the fears and prejudices of a community that is all but invisible, and for which much sympathy is usually available. >Support for screen readers was added in OpenOffice 1.1. The page http://ui.openoffice.org/accessibility/at.html describes this support. ZoomXT is _not_ a screen reader. Gnopernicus is described as being "in pre-release form". IOW, nothing on that page discusses screen readers. > 1) That page is incomplete - it doesn't list all the screen readers people > use. More precisely it doesn't list _any_ screen readers, let alone screen readers that people use. > 3) The accessibility bridge uses Java, and its memory requirements are very > high - see > http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.comp.open-office/msg/ecdd0f0087459d88 so many users might not be able to use it Sophia's message is overly optimistic in getting JAWS and _any_ version of OOo to work nicely with windows. > These three issues need to be dealt with promptly, >Has anyone on this list tested screen readers like JAWS with OpenOffice 2.0? A more significant question is what the minimum system requirements for running JAWS and OOo 2.0 re. [I'm guessing 2.5+Mhz Chip, and 1GB RAM ] xan jonathon -- Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards?
