Ok, I decided to be the test subject. I've attempted to use Open Office
in the past with marginal success at best. After reading this message, I
installed it on my Win 7 machine running the very latest JFW15 update.
I have to say, compared to my previous experiences with the product, it
runs pretty darn well. There are a few oddities. For instance, when
you're arrowing down the menu options under a particular menu (such as
Format for instance), occasionally you will hear the words "Menu Bar." I
didn't do a very exhaustive test, but I typed a sentence or two, changed
the font, etc. I didn't have any trouble with the simple tasks I was
performing. I will warn you that while it isn't exactly the same, you
will feel like you're in Word 2003. That is to say there is a true menu
bar--no ribbons. Again, not an exhaustive review by any means, but
that's what I noticed in the fifteen minutes or so that I played with
Open Office 4.1 To answer Ted's question, I think the download was 134
Megabytes. The connection was good though, because I downloaded it in
roughly a minute.
Brad
On 5/1/2014 7:24 AM, Adrian Spratt via Jfw 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
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