Tom Randall wrote > > Hi Everyone. > > As David suggested I installed jwin and it turns out I had in fact screwed > up one file in the access bridge installation. After a reboot I ran libre > office again and it now works perfectly. I'd like to thank everyone for > your help and suggestions. > > Best regards, > > Tom > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Randall > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 7:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] anyone using Libre Office > with theDolphin screen readers? > > Hi David. > > Thanks for the info I will definitely check into this. Yes I have enabled > the assistive technology functionality and get no errors so that is why I > am > assuming that I have the Java access bridge installed correctly. > > Best regards, > > Tom > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Goldfield > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 11:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [libreoffice-accessibility] anyone using Libre Office with > the Dolphin screen readers? > > Hi. > > I have a few comments. > > First, I'm not a Dolphin user but perhaps these comments may help. > Jamal Mazrui has written a handy little program called Jwin which > automatically downloads and installs the newer Java access Bridge > automatically so you don't have to figure out which files go into which > folder. Why Oracle never made an executable which does this is a mystery > to > me. Just Google > Jamal Mazrui jwin > And you'll get to the link. > > To ensure assistive technology support is enabled go to Tools, then > Options. > (alt T, then O.) > In case SuperNova doesn't read the controls contained within this dialog, > do > the following. > > Press the letter A twice. The first press takes you to the Appearance > Options, which is not what you want. The second press takes you to > Accessibility Options, which is what you do want. > Press the tab key once. > This takes you to a checkbox instructing LibreOffice to support assistive > technology. > Press the spacebar to check this box. > Press enter to close the dialog. > Close Writer with alt-f4, run it again and you should be OK. > > Also, make sure you're using 3.5.1 of LO, not 3.5. 3.5 lacked the > necessary > components to get this to work with Java Access Bridge: 3.5.1 works well. > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Randall > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 1:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [libreoffice-accessibility] anyone using Libre Office with the > Dolphin screen readers? > > Hi everyone. > > I've been using the older Open Office program for quite some time on my XP > box using the older Java access bridge. Now that I've got a windows 7 > system I had to get the newer Java access bridge and I decided to start > using Libre Office since it is still being developed. > > I had a devil of a time getting the new Java access bridge installed, > trying > to make sure all the files were copied to all the right places but I am > pretty sure I managed it. Now I am to the point of actually getting Libre > Office to work with Supernova version 12 from Dolphin. I mainly use the > writer so that is what I will talk about here. The document portion of > the > application is quite accessible, I am able to move around and read and > write > and select text using Supernova, in fact it is more responsive than the > old > Open Office. The problem I am having, and it is a pretty serious one, is > that Supernova is not able to read the menu bar or the pull-down menus at > this point. I am not positive whether the problem lies with Libre Office > or > with the Java access bridge version 2.06. > > I had a similar problem with Open Office and I believe there was a choice > I > had to change in the view section of options, I cannot remember precisely > what. I have looked through the view section in Libre Office and have not > found anything that appears to change how the menus are displayed. > > Sorry to make this so lengthy, if anyone has any suggestions for me to try > I > would love to hear them, as I said I really like the way the program works > in most ways, it is much more responsive than it used to be. > > Thanks in advance. > > Tom > >
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