As I'm adding a fifth suggestion to my initial list, does this mean I'm
pleading the fifth?
Seriously, I totally agree with this request about support for
LibreOffice. I realize that AI Squared is partnering with Microsoft. I
realize that Microsoft Office is a major Microsoft product and, for many
reasons, it is essential that Window-Eyes remains better than
competitive by offering the best access to Office as we can get. I get
that and agree with it. However, one of the reasons for why I broke down
and purchased Office 365 at home was because, if I'm going to be honest,
Office offers me the best accessibility for document creation and
editing. I'm sure Microsoft is quite pleased with this fact. I also feel
no malice toward them for their products or for the way they are being
marketed and distributed. The fact is that Microsoft Word is a darn good
product, is used by a lot of people and screen readers need to support
it. However, Office should not be the only choice available to us. Some
people just can't afford it. Some can but don't feel that they should
have to pay for a decent word processor and I'm in that camp. I love the
philosophy of open source, not just because many open source packages
are free but because they are written and supported by a community,
rather than a corporation, which has some advantages over Microsoft
Word. Although Window-Eyes isn't such a product, the scripting/app
development aspect brings that community involvement to Window-Eyes and
you guys do it better than your competition. Having said that, we need
to see equal support for LibreOffice, or at least as much as can be
implemented if there are limitations caused by the software. I can tell
you that the Document Foundation, which produces and distributes
LibreOffice, is interested in accessibility-related feedback and would
probably be happy to work with AI Squared in helping to make Window-Eyes
work just as well with Writer as it does with Word. This would open up
good word processing to many more of your users and would make
Window-Eyes stand apart from the competition if we could have the same
level of support with LibreOffice/OpenOffice as we do with Word.
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On 5/29/2015 2:54 AM, Micallef Michael at FITA via Talk wrote:
Hi Jeremy,
My wish list include:
1. Better support for Mozilla products especially Thunderbird Mail (basically
mouse navigation)
2. the ability to import/export window-eyes settings
3. better support for non-microsoft products such as open office and Liber
office so we the end users have better choice.
4. better labelling graphics capability (the insert+g when finish labelling
does not tells you how many labels it found and how many manage to really label
them).
5. better support for the most three used programming languages packages used
today.
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Subject: Seeking Your Input
Hello Everyone,
We are constantly working behind the scenes to improve our products. If you
could narrow down the top three requests you would have us add to our screen
reading product, what would they be?
Thanks for the input!
Jeremy
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Ai Squared, Inc.
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