Re: Text Editors that work best with Jaws?

From: "Gary King" <w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 19:14:40 -0500
If you want to try a free office suite that seems to work well with JFW, go to

http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home

and go through the free registration process.  Folks are always asking about 
Open Office and JFW.  The Lotus Symphony suite is based on Open Office, but 
accessibility is built in.  You don't have to use the Access Bridge.  I 
downloaded the 32-bit version to use with Windows XP on my netbook because I 
didn't want to pay for MS Office.  The version I am using is 1.3.  They have 
betas of version 3, but they may not be completely accessible.

I have played around with the word processor and the spreadsheet, and they seem 
to work well.  You can read and write MS Office files, although you do get 
warnings about some compatibility issues.  I don't know what these are.  My 
simple word processor and spreadsheet files seem to work fine.  I haven't done 
anything with the Presentation part of Lotus Symphony.  When you run the suite 
with JFW, you do get the "Lotus Symphony settings are loaded" message when you 
check with Insert+q, so FS has done some work on their end toward accessibility.

Give it a try.  Free is good!

Gary King
w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robert Logue 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 9:03 PM
  Subject: Re: Text Editors that work best with Jaws?


  http://www.jarte.com/

  Jarte has a nice spell checker but not a thesaurus.  However, you can press 
control+d on a word to go to the wordweb entry for that word.

  Jarte detects screen readers and configures it's interface for blind users.

  There is a free version and a low cost paid version.  I used the free one for 
a long time.  Check it out.

  Bob


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Brandon Keith 
    To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 7:00 PM
    Subject: Text Editors that work best with Jaws?


    Hello, 
    I was told and found that Notepad works way better with Jaws than Word does.
    But I'm writing papers and whatnot in Notepad, but there is no thesaurus 
and I don't believe any spellchecker.
    Is there any way to beef up Notepad? Or are there any other text editors 
that have the features of word?
    Thank you,

    Brandon Keith

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    brandonkeith


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