Wait a minute, what do you mean "quite accessible." Can you read content, or just the toolbar. I don't mean to be dificult. It's just that I've heard this before, also from quite reputable folks who didn't look very deep. Let me put it this way. Sun's accessibility staff aren't claiming that Star Office is accessible. They tell me directly that it needs a lot of work. So, do you know something Sun doesn't about its own product? Seems if it were accessible they'd be tauting it to the U.S. Government under our 508 law. Instead, they apologize and tell us they're working on it. On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Georgina wrote: > Hi > > V6 is quite accessible on the Windows platform but we don't have access to > the GUI under Linux. I'm commenting upon speech access but your interested > in Braille aren't you? Can you access X? There's plenty of documentation > on Star Office. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com > [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of John J. Boyer > Sent: 19 December 2001 11:39 > To: blinux-list@redhat.com > Subject: Accessibility of Star-Office > > > Hello, > About the only thing I am using Windows for these days is also scanning > and OCR. But I have to maintain compatibility with the rest of the > office, so I can't get rid of Windows for now. I'm wondering if anyone is > using Star-Office and how accessible it is. Can it read Microsoft Word > files? I must have that capability, even if we go to Linux completely. > Thanks. > John > > > -- > Computers to Help People, Inc. > http://www.chpi.org > 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp