On 10/26/05, Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If MS support ODF it isn't an issue as this would be a good sales > proposition for sticking with MS Office even if it and OOo have > interchangeable files. If MS don't support ODF and the community, > including the big companies ensure that OOo has at least as good support > for blind people, good bye MS.
MSO *has* good support for blind people already. MSO doesn't need to support ODF if there's no demand for it, and some petition signed by people who hate MSO anyway isn't exactly a demand. I agree that OOo needs to support accessiblity better than it does, and at least as good as (if not better than) MSO. But I don't think that once they get that, "Good bye MS". For one thing, (from what I've been told) JAWS only runs on (Microsoft) Windows. So, while OOo may limit sales of MSO, it wouldn't touch Windows' sales. For another, as the Democrats in Mass are proving, ODF is not much of a selling point. So having ODF support with "as good as" accessiblity support will not kill MSO. -Chad Smith
