Hi All Firstly let me apologise for any misunderstand over this issue. I did not intend to mislead anyone. I'd intended to include the word becoming quite accessible. I have been able to produce a document within Star Office using Dolphin's Supernova 4.5. Cursor navigation does give some speech output but it is not very consistant. It was athrow away comment as I was answering a request for information regarding access to Star Office under Linux. Thanks for pointing my error out. Although I don't think that it was necessary to be so sarcastic. Its not very constructive. >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 > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list