[JAWSLite] Re: jarte and Jaws

IBM Lotus Symphony is a free word processor. You can find out more about 
it and download it from 
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home.

I use it pretty successfully at the office with JFW 10 and a patch 
provided by my company, which I'm told will be in the next update of JFW 
10. It seems a bit flaky to me at the moment, but I'm optimistic that 
accessibility will continue to improve. The think I like about it is how 
much feedback you get regarding things like paragraph styles, nested 
lists, tables and so on. Another thing I like about it is that objects, 
including accessibility, are handled consistently across the 
applications in the suite. For example, you can tell the nesting of a 
list when reading a presentation or a document, and tables in a document 
behave just like a spread sheet. Like I said, it's usable but a little 
flaky right now, but I think it has the promise to be even more 
accessible than MS Office in the future.

Although Jart seems like a fine application to me, and I am glad to see 
that it's developers go out of their way to work with screen readers, it 
just doesn't fill a need for me at the moment. I use an editor, NoteTab 
Pro, which has a spell checker built into it, and does all of the simple 
editing I need to do. When it comes to word processing, I'm looking to 
work with things like nested lists, tables and paragraph styles, and I 
just don't see enough support for this--with accessibility--in Jart. I'm 
not knocking Jart, I think there's a need for a simple word processor, 
and I think Jart does a great job of fitting this bill with 
accessibility in mind.

The Elf wrote:
> hello,
>
> would you tell me what symphony is/is used for and where does one get it?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Christopher Chaltain" <cchaltain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:12 AM
> Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: jarte and Jaws
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>> I've played around with Jart, and although it seems to work fine for
>> simple word processing, I don't get the feedback on objects like tables
>> and lists that I do in Word and Symphony. I'm using JFW 9 right now. Is
>> there anything I can do to get this information from Jart and JFW 9? I
>> haven't looked very hard yet, but if I know it's possible, I'll keep
>> looking.
>>
>> Gerald Levy wrote:
>>     
>>> Jarte works very well with JAWS, and I use it instead of Word 2007 as my
>>> default word processor.
>>>
>>> Geralld
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Rosemarie Chavarria" <knitqueen2007@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 9:12 PM
>>> Subject: [JAWSLite] jarte and Jaws
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi, everyone.  Not too long ago I heard about this free word processing
>>>> program called jarte.  How well does it work with Jaws?  I'm always
>>>> interested in learning to do something new.
>>>> Thanks for your help in advance.
>>>> Rosemarie
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>> Christopher
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