[duxuser] Re: Duxbury and jarte.
- From: "Phippen, Stephen" <Stephen.Phippen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 09:37:18 -0000
Following the recent messages on Open Office accessibility:
The free office suite IBM Symphony is available as a download from IBM
in Windows, Linux and Macs versions, and is based on Open Office so can
open and save in Open Office file format (as well as in the usual Word
formats, etc.). However, it is reported that is does work with JAWS in
Windows (both by IBM and JAWS themselves), and on a quick test myself it
does seem to work with JAWS. I suspect that this may be due to it being
based behind the scenes on the Eclipse platform - we similarly found
that the Oxygen XML editor didn't work well with JAWS in its normal
version, but it did work in its Eclipse-based version.
I've been a regular user of IBM Symphony (especially the word processor
component), for some time, though as a sighted user.
Regards,
Stephen
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jean Menzies
Sent: 28 December 2011 21:39
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Duxbury and jarte.
Interesting that Duxbury now works with Open Office. However, Open
Office is not accessible to blind users on the Windows platform. There
are many blind people using Macs, and to my knowledge, there is very
poor support for braille anything in the Mac world. I'm referring here
to braille translation, not braille displays. I am aware that a person
can run a Windows environment on a Mac, and there are people who run
Windows on a Mac so they can run DBT.
But being as I am considering moving to the Apple world, are there any
concrete plans to make an Apple-compatible version of DBT? I think that
would serve a lot more people than Open Office support.
Jean
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