No, Charlie. This isn't correct. First point. StarOffice accessibility is currently under development, both for Linux and for Windows. This will include the GPL edition called OpenOffice. Second point, it isn't the same as with Windows, in any case. The display is not integrated into applications the way it is on Windows systems. That's the same answer you got on the radio the other day. On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, charles crawford wrote: > It does distress me that Star Offfice 6 is not accessible by > text and that contradicts the answer to a question that I posed a few days > ago. In short, are we setting ourselves up for another Microsoft > experience where text in Linux or DOS in Microsoft is replaced by the > graphical user interface? The answer I got was that it is not in nature > of Linux to allow for that. Now I hear this. > > So what is the answer to the question? Should we not only be > looking at technology but also at the advocacy model to insure that we > keep access through text? > > -- charlie Crawford. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
