Hi! I haven’t used it much but when i am using it i must say i do like it. However its very hard to get to a point where you ended for example. But i will take a deeper look at it tomorrow hopefully. /A > 1 jan 2015 kl. 01:40 skrev David Griffith <[email protected]>: > > > I have had another go at installing Libre Office under Yosemite today to see > if accessibility had improved. . > > I have only had time so far to look at the Writer word-processing part of the > app. Whilst there are some improvements compared to the last time I tried the > suite under Mavericks there still seems a lot of difficulties which make the > application frustrating to use. > > On the plus side I can at least now get typing echo from the edit areas, > possibly as a result of my installing 2 versions of Java, both a legacy Java > 6 and the latest Java 7 or 8. > This I did not achieve with Mavericks where there was no typing echo. > > However the app has unacceptable high levels of chatter which can be > ameliorated slightly by putting Voiceover into low verbosity. > Even with low verbosity the app announces insertion point at beginning of > text every time you enter a paragraph, or insertion point at end of text if > you are using option down arrow. If you have medium verbosity it also > announces edit text. if you simply cursor down the app announces exactly > where the cursor insertion point is, e.g. on word too after O. > This may be good for editing but does not make for a smooth reading > experience of text. However you could conceivably just use Writer for editing > text and use TextEdit for reading text generally for content I suppose. > . > However the main problem is that it still seems impossible to effectively > interact with anything else but a paragraph at a time. I found that by > pressing VO A a paragraph would read acceptably but then grind to a halt. A > push of the down arrow would then allow you to press VO A again to read the > next paragraph. > Of course every time you push the down arrow this will provoke an edit text > insertion point at beginning of text message from Voiceover.` Disappointingly > > There appears no way to read a whole page or document in Writer. The best > and smoothest way for proceeding through a document was to press VO a and > then press down arrow to allow a further VO A. > > I was able to jump to the top and bottom of the document by pressing command > down and up arrow but could not find a reliable way of navigating by page. > > Like TextEdit Libre Office appeared to offer little to Voiceover users with > reading Tables and Pages appears the only supported application for this at > the moment on the word Processing front. > > I experimented with turning off print view and web view but this did not > seem to greatly improve matters. The preferences on my system were > ineffectively inaccessible as VO kept on resetting itself as I tried to enter > and explore these and eventually I had to force quit Libre Office and hold > down the power button to restart my iMac. > > I found little that I could not do more easily in TextEdit but these initial > observations may be too harsh if there are strategies for coping with the app > which I am not aware of. > > i would be interested to hear if anybody else has more positive experience. > > David Griffith . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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