hi. i can't seem to get to their site to get it. seems like it's being slammed right now.
On Oct 13, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi EveryoneWell, I've been playing around with openoffice 3.0 for a bit and here are some initial observations as regards to accessibility. Note, this is how it behaves for me, it could conceivably behave differently particularly in regards to stability for you. It's not much different from rc4 in this respect, I'm sorry to say. The spreadsheet accessibility is great, so for those looking for a free and accessible spreadsheet this just might be what you're looking for. Other than that, though... Impress still crashes Voiceover when you move to the right onto the text area, and doesn't crash it when you move to the left. If you try to type into a text area with VO enabled, Openoffice itself crashes, as it does when you try to read beyond your current paragraph. Same as rc4, and naturally this makes working with presentations dang near impossible. Writer doesn't seem to have undergone any improvements either. Paragraphs are still seen as separate edit fields, causing havoc with proper text selection unless you turn cursor tracking off and even then you'd better know exactly how many times you need to select in a given direction since it won't be accurately reported. Text attributes are still not exposed with vo+t as they should be, making it a pain to check your fonts and such as well as your alignment. You can VO up to the formatting toolbar and take a look there, but it's considerably slower than pressing vo+t would be. Tables still are not very useable, you can't interact with them and look at their contents. If you keep track of where you are you can create a table, but editing it after that is a royal pain. About the best thing for tables in Openoffice is that it actually tells you there's a table there.I haven't played with draw at all yet, so can't comment.Needless to say I'm more than a bit frustrated, I feel like all the time I put into reporting these issues to the developers was wasted. I've been reporting the writer bugs since beta 1, so far it seems like they care most about the spreadsheet though and are basically leaving the rest for later.I'll report if I find anything else noteworthy.Click on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.comManage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Webinterface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
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