Malte Timmermann wrote:
Some of you just played a little bit with JAWS.
If you find problems, could you please verify with ZoomText, what
ZoomText does with OOo?
ZoomText supports Java Accessibility much better!
Thanks for the info. Could you put up a FAQ about
screen reader support that mentions this?
I had long conference calls with JAWS people some time ago, trying to
get better support for OOo, but they even don't fix bugs on their side
when we report some.
We are not JAWS customers, and OOo is not on their focus, because of
market share and missing demand from customers.
So if you are a JAWS customer, and have trouble using OOo with JAWS,
please file bugs to Freedom Scientific, we can't work around them.
That's good to know.
BTW - someone pointed to
http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.comp.open-office/msg/ecdd0f0087459d88
and said bad performance and memory consumption is because of Java.
It wasn't me! I don't recall seeing anybody but you mention Java
with respect to memory consumption. But I understand you might
be a bit sensitive -- everybody probably blames Java for that.
This is not true.
Big memory consumption and loop/crash is because JAWS doesn't support
the Java AccessibelTabe interface correctly, so they try to get the
content for millions of cells.
That's very good to know, thanks.
To the accessibility issues:
- Not every issue flagged with Accessibility keyword means that there is
really a big problem
Agreed
- OOo 2.0.2 will concentrate on Accessibility tasks....
Yeah, I finally noticed that there were about 30 accessibility
bugs targeted for 2.0.2.
- ... but that wont help much for Windows Screen Readers if they don't
fix bugs on their side
- This is why OOo AT support on GNOME is better than on Windows. If
something doesn't work because of a bug in AT, we can fix it there,
because all GNOME AT is open source!
Thanks for all the info, Malte!
- Dan
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