[JAWSLite] Re: jarte and Jaws

Hello, Christopher.  Would symphony work well with older versions of Jaws? 
I'm using jaws 5.0.  It does sound like a really neat word processing 
program.
Rosemarie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Chaltain" <cchaltain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 3:40 PM
Subject: [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
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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>
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>
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