[JAWSLite] Re: jarte and Jaws

No, I don't think so. I found working with Symphony and JFW 9 to be 
pretty tedious. It wasn't until Symphony 1.2 came out and JFW 10 that I 
started using Symphony regularly.

Rosemarie Chavarria wrote:
> 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
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> From: "Christopher Chaltain" <cchaltain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 3:40 PM
> Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: jarte and Jaws
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>> 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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