Nope, that it is not.
On Oct 13, 2008, at 12:47, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
Is nices free?
Thanks for listening,
Alex,
On 13-Oct-08, at 12:44 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
At this point, Nisus is better no question about it.
On Oct 13, 2008, at 10:56, Fonzie wrote:
Hey there Jacob, how are you doing?
Would you say that Neicis Writer is better then Open Office 3.0?
Best
fonzie
On Oct 13, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi Everyone
Well, I've been playing around with openoffice 3.0 for a bit and
here are some initial observations as regards to accessibility.
Note, this is how it behaves for me, it could conceivably behave
differently particularly in regards to stability for you.
It's not much different from rc4 in this respect, I'm sorry to
say. The spreadsheet accessibility is great, so for those looking
for a free and accessible spreadsheet this just might be what
you're looking for. Other than that, though...
Impress still crashes Voiceover when you move to the right onto
the text area, and doesn't crash it when you move to the left. If
you try to type into a text area with VO enabled, Openoffice
itself crashes, as it does when you try to read beyond your
current paragraph. Same as rc4, and naturally this makes working
with presentations dang near impossible.
Writer doesn't seem to have undergone any improvements either.
Paragraphs are still seen as separate edit fields, causing havoc
with proper text selection unless you turn cursor tracking off
and even then you'd better know exactly how many times you need
to select in a given direction since it won't be accurately
reported. Text attributes are still not exposed with vo+t as they
should be, making it a pain to check your fonts and such as well
as your alignment. You can VO up to the formatting toolbar and
take a look there, but it's considerably slower than pressing vo
+t would be. Tables still are not very useable, you can't
interact with them and look at their contents. If you keep track
of where you are you can create a table, but editing it after
that is a royal pain. About the best thing for tables in
Openoffice is that it actually tells you there's a table there.
I haven't played with draw at all yet, so can't comment.
Needless to say I'm more than a bit frustrated, I feel like all
the time I put into reporting these issues to the developers was
wasted. I've been reporting the writer bugs since beta 1, so far
it seems like they care most about the spreadsheet though and are
basically leaving the rest for later.
I'll report if I find anything else noteworthy.
