Hi everybody.
Maybe a few emails to the developers of open office letting them know you
are using a screen-reader and would love to use open office.
I heard they are working on accessibility with the mac too so maybe we can
all email them and discuss accessibility of the windows version.
I think a lot of developers listen if you talk to them about things.
I know they don't always listen or they don't put it at the top of the list,
but many of them will listen if you can tell them what needs to happen to
make it work. Some of you people on here are programmers right? You can
speak their language and let them know that there's this whole load of blind
and visually impaired people just waiting to use open office.
Hope this made some sense; it's early in the morning. lol
Sara
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "GW-INFO List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:45 AM
Subject: RE: OpenOffice
There is some effort to make Open Office more accessible, and this may not
require direct Java support by screen
readers but this isn't completely clear. Please also be aware of the fact
that just because a screen reader supports Java
accessibility does not mean that a Java program will be accessible.
Programs have to be written in a particular way for
Java's access support to work, and this has been somewhat problematic even
for screen readers that have supported
the accessibility features built into certain versions of Java. I, and
others, suggested as long as ten years ago that if
companies who wanted to get more support for Java would make Open Office
accessible that it would provide a
stronger reason for screen readers to make the effort to support it. It
didn't happen. Some efforts to make accessible
under the GUI part of Linux has happened recently and my understanding it
is at least somewhat accessible, but even
these are recent developments.
There is freeware that works fine with Window-eyes, but I think it is fair
to say that some free software is written by
people who are not at all aware of accessibility and because it is free,
there is little commitment to support or making
changes for specific users. Still, some freeware providers deserve credit
for making an effort to have software that we
can use.
Best regards,
Steve Jacobson
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:07:14 -0500, Sandra Fouts wrote:
So many things "do" use java! At least it seems like it.
Sandra Fouts
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-----Original Message-----
From: Raul A. Gallegos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:35 AM
To: GW Info Discussion List
Subject: Re: OpenOffice
Open Office uses Java and Window-Eyes 7.0 will not have support for
Java. We will look at Java post 7.0.
David said the following on 6/24/2008 4:59 AM:
GW staff:
Will theere be any support in WE 7 for OpenOffice? Would be great if
we could start using this freeware. The Microsoft Office packs are not
exactly cheap. Besides, I notice, that a few computers are delivered
with the OpenOffice already installed.
Actually, what is it about that freeware, that confilicts with screen
readers?
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