Bill:
Microsoft itself is not all that friendly to those who have disabilities.
True, it has screen magnification, but does not, as of yet, have a speech
element. The Microsoft screen magnification is not as good as ZoomText or
others on the market and assitive programs like Win Eyes, Jaws, and other
programs that will "read" and output any document in a speech format so a
totaly blind person can listen to the document.
To be a GREAT program, OOo should put a text-to-voice reader in Open Office.
It will then comply with ADA and be a program that blind more people will
use.
Stu Shear
Services for the Visually Impaired, State of Ohio
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Haneman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <dev@ui.openoffice.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [ui-dev] Accessibility in OOo
Daniel Carrera wrote:
Hello all,
As you know, Microsoft is claiming that Massachusett's move to
OpenDocment would present a problem for people with disabilities. I think
their argument is based on the premise that all applications that can
read ODF are unable to address disabilities.
Could someone help me respond to this?
Can someone point me to factual information as to how OOo or StarOffice
accomodates disabilities? Especially *blind* people, as that seems to be
the core of Microsoft's argument.
Daniel:
Someone should get you a pointer to the UNO Accessibility API info, which
shows that an extensive infrastructure for disability support is built
into OOo. Also a pointer to Sun's StarOffice Sanity Test Suite would be
helpful. (Sun guys, I know we've published these test suites for the rest
of Gnome/JDS already so there's no reason not to publish this one as
well). That test suite includes blind user scenario testing with speech
and braille output on the JDS platform, on both Linux and the Solaris
operating systems.
If someone can point me to the OOo accessibility test suite info I can add
it to the Gnome tests.
Bill
I will get this information to Peter Quinn so he can support the
OpenDocument decision on Monday's meeting.
Your help would be most appreciated.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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