Thanks Don: I'll try that. Kevin Huber On 8/30/13, Don H <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is a Email that Doug at GW sent me regarding Open Office. I > personally have tried all his suggestions and can not get Open Office to > work as he says it does. > Don, > I just verified my Open Office 3.3.0 is working with Window-Eyes. By > working I mean > the menus and dialogs along with the text from the word processor. Here > are the > things I believe need to be done: > 1) You need to be using a JRE pre 7. I've seen other 7 and greater > JRE's have issues > with the access bridge > 2) Make sure you either have the legacy access bridge or the access > bridge supplied > by Window-Eyes installed. > 3) For me, on launch some java components get launched. I blocked these > things from > being launched on startup. Prior to that I would use Task manager to > kill anything > Java related. > 4) After launching Open office you need to do the following: > Press Alt-T followed by O to get into the Options dialog. Arrow down to > the Accessibility > node and tab to the "Support assistive technology tools" checkbox and > check it. > Then go to the Java tab on the left. This will list all the JRE's that > are registered > on your system. Make sure you have a pre 7 version selected. For me > I'm using a > 1.6.0.22 version. > Press OK on the options dialog and restart Open Office. > Regards, > > > > > On 8/30/2013 3:27 PM, Kevin Huber wrote: >> Hi Dave: >> I have tried Openoffice as well, and have also run into the problem of >> not being able to read what I typed and, for that matter, any document >> which I open with Openoffice cannot be read with Window-eyes. >> If anyone out there has a solution to or a work-around, I'd like to >> know about it as well. >> Kevin Huber >> >> On 8/25/13, Dave Bahr <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> >>> I just downloaded open office to see if I could use it. Well, I also >>> downloaded libre office, just for fun, yeah I know they're based on the >>> same >>> source code. I'm having a few fairly large issues with both of them. For >>> the >>> sake of simplification, we'll just use open office as the default go to >>> program here. >>> >>> >>> >>> 1. I can't seem to keep the accessibility settings from >>> disappearing >>> every time I restart the program. I can navigate the options dialog with >>> the >>> mouse cursor, and left click on the use assistive technology checkbox. >>> However, upon a few restarts of the program, see issue number 2 below, >>> the >>> access disappears. This is after updating java to the latest and >>> installing >>> the jab. Do I need to go back to jre 6.1? >>> >>> 1.1 when I click on the ok button to close the options dialog, I am >>> presented with a message asking me to select a java runtime environment >>> to >>> use with open office. I can move by clip and, presumably, I selected the >>> 7.0:25 jre with accessibility. >>> >>> 2. When I happen to get accessibility enabled, if I press alt for >>> the >>> file menu and then press the right arrow to expand it, open office >>> closes. >>> Yep, that's right, returns me to the desktop. This is, as far as I can >>> tell, >>> only occurring when I am on the main screen where I can select what sort >>> of >>> document I want to work with. >>> >>> 3. When I have the chance to open up a word document to write text >>> into, I can't read it. >>> >>> So, at present, these issues more or less make open office a useless >>> program. Has anyone else run into these problems? If so, any fixes? >>> >>> Thanks, any help is appreciated. >>> >>> >>> If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender >>> only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is >>> related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to >>> [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >>> >>> GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can >>> manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. >> If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender >> only. 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