On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 00:52 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fred wrote: > > > apparently the blind have given Massachusetts' efforts to mandate open > > source the shaft. > > I'd suggest that the reason the disability commission is opposed is > because of money. In this case, OOo requires no money. This is a major > liability for an organization whose major function is buy the lowest > quality product, and the highest possible price. > > The function of organizations for disabled people is to buy product for > one person, using money provided by a second person, from a third > person, with nobody caring about the quality, or cost-effectiveness of > the product. > > > Because Open Document Format (ODF) software (Open Office) does not yet work > > with screen magnifiers, > > On Win2K Professional, OOo 2.0.3 does work with the screen magnifier > that comes with Win2K. It also works with ZoomText 8.1.
And FC5 with Accessibility features enabled. The screen magnifier is particularly nice. > > Claims that OOo does not work with screen magnification software are > obviously flat out lies, by people that have not tested it out for > themselves. [I'm at 14.4 KB, otherwise I'd get the URL for the trial > version of ZoomText for people to download, and text it out for themselves.] http://www.aisquared.com/index.cfm and of course it is FUD. I think you are correct that vested interests are attempting to maintain status quo for ... (you put it the reasons) > > I will grant that it does not work with Jaws, but that is purely because > Freedom Scientific is on record for saying that they will never support > any software that is not created, and distributed by a company other > than Microsoft. This is a sad fact. :-( > > I will also grant that using OOo without a mouse is difficult. Not > impossible, merely difficult. > -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/
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