Google will convert all those Office filetypes to HTML, for what that's worth. Why would you want to use Office and all its clunkiness anyway?
JW Octavian Rasnita wrote:
I said that Windows + Jaws is cheaper than creating your own OS and screen reader.But exactly because many users don't have the time nor want to make the effort of learning to use a new OS, most users prefer using Windows and Jaws, and pay for them, and this means that Windows + Jaws is cheaper because they cost money, but they don't cost the effort.I don't have the problem with learning to use a new OS, but I do have a very big problem with the compatibility with Windows and this is one of the main reasons I don't use Linux only. I really don't like to receive a .xls or .xlsx or a .doc file with a complicated formatting that I need to be able to access and understand, or even a Power Point or an MS Access file, but not beeing able to access them because I use Linux.When I will hear that I could access those files and other types of files under Linux also with Orca or another screen reader, I will be glad to pass to Linux entirely.Octavian----- Original Message ----- From: "black ares" <matematicianu2003@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 9:01 PM Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech includedhmm, less expensive you said...Taking in account that jaws is $1905+200+200 and taht windows is $200... And solaris+orcaa+speakupor Fedora+orca+speakup ofer the same accessibility than jaws+windows...I shall prefer the fedora way, but my big problem in this moment is that I am not so familiar with linux systems.I have not the time to learn.----- Original Message ----- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 7:20 PM Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech includedThe user that put the question asked if it would be possible to have an OSwith speech and what should be done to create it. I only guess that he doesn't want a poor OS that just boots up and thenspeaks, but that he might want to create something better than the currently used operating systems offer, because otherwise the question would be justone for fun.Well, the most accessible OS with speech is to buy Windows and Jaws, and it is much much easy and cheap to do this than to make the effort of creatingyour own operating system and your own screen reader. Linux or Solaris with Orca can't compare with Windows and Jaws from the point of view of accessibility, so they're out of questions.If the user that asked wants to create a better OS wwith speech, he should create a better OS and a better screen reader than Windows and Jaws, notthan Solaris and Orca.We weren't talking about which of Microsoft and Sun offers the best OS andthe best screen reader and his was a very poor point. I don't agree that Sun offers a better accessible OS with speech justbecause the OS and the screen reader is made by Sun, because nobody cares which company makes the OS and the screen reader. The blind users care abouthow good is the most accessible combination between an OS and a screen reader, and for the moment this is Windows and Jaws and not Solaris and Orca. It is very easy to install Jaws under Windows, even blindly by usingNarrator for doing this, so after installing you can consider Windows as anOS with a screen reader, no matter that they were made by 2 separate companies.So please stop recommending other combinations like using Linux, or Solaris, or Macintosh and the screen reader they offer pre-installed, because the user that put the question was not asking for recommendations for an OS with a screen reader, but asked what he should do in order to create its own OSand its own screen reader. And I've told him that he might need the work force of thousands ofprogrammers if he wants to create a better combination between Windows andJaws, because this is the best combination, not those that use Orca. Octavian----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 5:49 PM Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech included>Sorry, but I think you don't know what you are talking about.and you do? I think your writing now for the sake of argument. Go take asleeping pill, we got your point, his point was a valid one. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield email: tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx web: tysdomain-com Visit for quality software and web design. skype: st8amnd2005----- Original Message ----- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 3:01 AM Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech includedSorry, but I think you don't know what you are talking about.First, I didn't say that Jaws is a Microsoft program. I said only that the best accessibility is offered by Windows and Jaws and not by Orca and Linux, but not even the comparison between these 2 is important, but the fact that it is very hard to create another OS with another screen readerbuilt in.Second, I know that Orca works with Linux, but Sun doesn't pretend thatthey've created the most advanced Linux OS, but that they've created Solaris, the most advanced OS.However, Solaris is not accessible for the blind, or it is accessible butonly by using emacspeak, which has a very ugly interface and offers apoor accessibility anyway, and I haven't tested Solaris so I don't really know if it really supports emacspeak or it is just a future plan for Sun.By the way, have anyone tried Solaris? Octavian----- Original Message ----- From: "black ares" <matematicianu2003@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 11:39 AM Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech includeddon't forget that jaws is not a microsoft software and, taking softwareonly from the two grand companies, sun is better than microsoft. Because, with orca you can do more than with narator from windows.So Sun has right assuming it as the best company offering an advanced oswith speak.----- Original Message ----- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 10:08 AM Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech includedWindows is an operating system with speech included. Do you want to create a better OS than Windows and a better screen reader than Narrator? I guess you want to create a better one, because otherwise... why bother? In order to do that, you should create a company, employ a few thousands of good programmers and after very many years you might do it.Sun Microsystems has tens of thousands of programmers and they pretendthatthey have created the most advanced operating system in the world, andtheyhave also made one of the most used screen readers for Linux, but theaccessibility offered by their solutions is much lower than the one offeredby Windows and screen readers like Jaws, and Sun work on their OS forvery many years, so... it could be very hard to do what you want. Octavian----- Original Message ----- From: "Jose Lomeli" <jose.lomeli93@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 10:05 AM Subject: Creating an Operating System with speech includedHello; Listers, I just thought. What do I have to do to create aoperating system with speech. I just thought about this. Can this bedone? Please write back. 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