Hi all,I just downloaded and installed Open Office. I have some good news, and not so good news.
First, the good news... it looks like the spreadsheet application is quite accessible. VO reads the cell coordinates as well as the contents of a cell that you move into. I tried Numbers, in the i"Works suite, and was very disappointed to find that the only way to get the contents of a cell announced is to interact with it, and I don't think the coordinates are read at all! So I was quite excited to see that the Open Office, spreadsheet, at least at first blush, seems to be accessible.
Now, for the not so good news. I tried opening one of my database files created in MS Access, and it wasn't accessible at all. I just got a lot of numbers, interspersed with the words, "jet database" or something to that effect.
I also opened a word document created in MS Word 2007, and for some reason, each time I press the down arrow to read the next line, VO will read the line, and then say things like, "edit text, insertion at beginningof line". This makes it difficult to read a document. Also, VO A doesn't read the document continuously. There may be some settings that need to be changed, and I will play more when time permits! <grin>
HTH Russell
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