Open Office will not work well with any screen reader. It has not been redesigned to be accessible and it never has been. -----Original Message----- From: Don H [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 1:42 PM To: Kevin Huber; gwmicro Subject: Re: OpenOffice 4.10
Give it up as WE will not work at a useful level with Open Office. On 5/30/2014 2:33 PM, Kevin Huber wrote: > Hi: > I downloaded the latest version of OpenOffice 4.10 on my Windows7 > system here at home. > I had Java Access Bridge installed, and I activated the accessibility options. > I found that it didn't work, meaning, it would not read text that I > had typed or dialogs that came up such as when I was asked if I wanted > to save the current document. I managed to read these things with the > mouse and click on discard. > > Out of curiosity, I uninstalled Java Access Bridge to see if it would > have an impact. Of course, it didn't. Then I reinstalled Java Access > Bridge and tried it again. > It acted the same way. > My question is, why is JAVA Access Bridge not making a diference, and > how do I fix that? > Kevin Huber > 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. 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. 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.
