That is interesting and very good news for screen reader users, especially those who don't, for whatever reason, use MS Office. Still I'd like to know more before I run out and install open office.
Kimber On 5/1/14, Adrian Spratt via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm copying an item from Dean Martineau's Top Tech Tidbits newsletter this > morning because it sounds like a step forward for screenreader users. I'd > also be curious if OpenOffice really has become more accessible. Note that > Dean has stated his newsletter content can be distributed so long as it is > given attribution; otherwise, I wouldn't copy it verbatim. > > 1) A step forward has been made in accessibility to free Office suites with > the release of OpenOffice 4.1 with built-in iAccessible2 support. Screen > readers with this support should, in theory, be able to work with OO out of > the box, without the need to install Java Access Bridge. Reportedly, support > is best with NVDA, with the most recent update for JAWS, which works in most > places and forthcoming versions of Window-Eyes may also have support: > http://www.openoffice.org > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20140501/0e14b88b/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > -- Kimberly _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
