[JAWSLite] Re: IBM Lotus Symphony, a free accessible office suite?

Hmm, well I'm running with the latest Java, Java access bridge, and I am aware of the accessibility option you mention, but working with Open Office has never been a pleasant experience for me. 

inthaneelf wrote:
I have not tried it myself, but from what I understand, angus@infoforceservices, A.K.A. hadens harness attachment, has been able to use open office at his workplace with jaws, I think there is an "accessibility" option in one of the menus that needs to be turned on, and then its supposed to be much friendlier.
but this sounds ok, as long as it has moved away from the lotus requirement of having to type things, such as functions and grid layout in the spread sheet manually 

thanks,
inthane
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Chaltain" <cchaltain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:01 PM
Subject: [JAWSLite] IBM Lotus Symphony, a free accessible office suite?
Yesterday I came across IBM Lotus Symphony. This is an office suite consisting of applications to work on documents, spread sheets and presentations. It supports the open document format, as well as the MS Office file formats, and it seems to be free. Even more excitingly, there may be a chance it's accessible. After playing around with it for a few minutes, I'm still optimistic that it is accessible. If so, this will give us another office suite option besides MS Office, and this one is free. Note that I've tried Open Office, and after a few minutes, I've always concluded that under Windows and with JFW, it isn't really usable. I've only played with Symphony for a few minutes. so there may be some show stoppers out there, and I'm not sure if they're still committed to accessibility, but it's still under beta so this is our chance to get our input in there.
I got it from Developer Works at http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa. 

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cchaltain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, well I'm running with the latest Java, Java access 
bridge, and I am aware of the accessibility option you mention, but working 
with Open Office has never been a pleasant experience for me. I suppose if you 
were just using the word processor, and you didn't want any formatting 
information, it might work. Of course, maybe I just haven't been persistent 
enough! I have heard good things about Open Office under Linux with Orca or 
LSR. Maybe it works better with Window Eyes than JFW.

inthaneelf wrote:

I have not tried it myself, but from what I understand, angus@infoforceservices, A.K.A. 
hadens harness attachment, has been able to use open office at his workplace with jaws, I 
think there is an "accessibility" option in one of the menus that needs to be 
turned on, and then its supposed to be much friendlier.

but this sounds ok, as long as it has moved away from the lotus requirement of 
having to type things, such as functions and grid layout in the spread sheet 
manually

thanks,
inthane
. For Blind Programming assistance, Information, Useful Programs, and Links to 
Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and Applications, visit me at:
http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com
. to be able to view a simple programming project in several programming 
languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at:
http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Chaltain" 
<cchaltain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:01 PM
Subject: [JAWSLite] IBM Lotus Symphony, a free accessible office suite?



Yesterday I came across IBM Lotus Symphony. This is an office suite consisting 
of applications to work on documents, spread sheets and presentations. It 
supports the open document format, as well as the MS Office file formats, and 
it seems to be free. Even more excitingly, there may be a chance it's 
accessible. After playing around with it for a few minutes, I'm still 
optimistic that it is accessible. If so, this will give us another office suite 
option besides MS Office, and this one is free. Note that I've tried Open 
Office, and after a few minutes, I've always concluded that under Windows and 
with JFW, it isn't really usable. I've only played with Symphony for a few 
minutes. so there may be some show stoppers out there, and I'm not sure if 
they're still committed to accessibility, but it's still under beta so this is 
our chance to get our input in there.

I got it from Developer Works at 
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa.

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