[bcab] Re: Open Office, Jaws and the Java Access Bridge

Hello Ruth 

I have switched to 'Zoomtext', because, I found using 'JAWS' conflicted with
some commercial software I used when studying at the 'Open University' for
instance (programming languages and drawing and audio applications.) 

 I use the combined screen reader and screen enhancement Zoomtext package
version 8.1, with 'Open Office'. I can access the screen with a mouse and
use 5 or 6 times magnification depending on what I am doing at the time.
Yes it is true that 'Zoomtext' doesn't like the Open environment software
programs as much as 'Microsoft', but I can get by with some problems. For
instance I found that if I changed the default font in the 'Writer'
application it would recognize the screen reader and tell me what I had
written. 

The reason I told 'Karina' about 'Open Office' was, I thought that she was
looking a PDF converter for accessing a few PDF  forms, I keep 'Open Office'
on my system mostly for that option.  I use 'Microsoft Office' for any other
things I want to do as 'Zoomtext' behaves better. 

Sorry for any confusion 
Regards 
Stuart Barron         

-----Original Message-----
From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Loebl, Ruth
Sent: 31 August 2006 14:55
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bcab] Open Office, Jaws and the Java Access Bridge

Hi Stuart
Your message caught my eye - are you using Open Office seriously with
Jaws and the Access Bridge? Can you give me any feedback on how you got
on - you make it sound very simple, but previous feedback has suggested
that using software through the Access Bridge can be very problematic.
Are there any parts of the Office software or Jaws that don't work, or
work only with difficulty, or where you have to use Zoomtext? Or is
everything completely hunky dory for a Jaws user?
Thanks
Ruth 

-----Original Message-----
From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Stuart Barron
Sent: 31 August 2006 14:09
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bcab] Re: PDF Files

Hello Karina 

 

If you want to convert text documents into PDF files you could try 'Open
Office' it has the facility to convert all document created in 'Open
Office' into PDF files. Best of all it is free to use and download from
the internet from www.openoffice.com <http://www.openoffice.com/>  

 

I found that I had to download 'Java Access Bridge' so that my copies of
JAWS ZoomText would talk to me but that is simple to do because the
office program has a link to the Java web site.

 

I hope this is helpful to you if you need any more info let me know.

 

Regards 

Stuart Barron       

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