Category: Geeks r Us
Hey guys. My friend just told me today about Open Office because I just got a new laptop, and I don't have microsoft office yet. SO I downloaded OO, but Jaws is not working with it. I know it's not very accessible, but if you guys have any suggestions, that would be awesome! Thanks a bunch
open office really is mean to all screen readers from what i've seen
What is open office?
Open office is basically a free version of Microsoft office. It's basically the NVDA of microsoft office...
Rat, wrong. Open office works good with voice over from what I've heard.
Open office and Voiceover work well together, and there is supposedly a means of making it play nice with windows too. Will go and track down the person who told me this and get back to you.
I'd be interested in that info too please Alex. I have it here and can't doa thing with it up to now.
Cheers,
Simon
There are lots of us who'd like the answer to making this software work. Another word processor that is free that works is called jart. There was a podcast several months ago on blind cool tech about it.
Lou
Oh yeah Alex, if you can find the info, that would be awesome, lol.
And Jart? Where I can I find the information for Jart?
Go to www.blindcooltech.com and scroll through the list of podcasts. You might try just doing aogoogle search on jart and see what you find as well.
Lou
Not only does OpenOffice 4 wirk with Voice Over for the Mac, but it also works with Orca for Linux. I've heard but not tested, that iWork 2009 also works with Voice Over. BTW, to those who download stuff off of bit torrent sites, do not get the versions that are floating around on them, some of them contain a hidden mac trojan. If you're gonna get it, get it off of Apple's site, its a 30 day trial, but its uninfected. hth
Jarte's great, I use it for school work and will continue to do so until I can get office put on the machine here. I need to do that soon though as jarte doesn't seem to have a way of showing word comments, which is the way our tutor marks and comments on our assignments. Lou, if you're talking about the podcast flComputerGeek did on it then I highly recommend it too, she did a great job with that one.
Yes. That's the one.
Spike, Iwork 2009 does work with mac and voice over. I've gotten a lot of tweets about it.
OK, thanks a lot you guys. lol, so I guess Open Office's not that grate then. Ah well, at least i can look up jart and other stuff now. Thanks
It would've been great if you'd listened to me and got a Mac, but instead, you make fun of me and call me mean, and hurtful names.
OpenOffice can work with Windows and JAWS.
It's a little tricky, but I've done it and I've got it working here.
Go grab the JAVA access Bridge off of the JAVA site or Google JAVA access Bridge.
Then, install the JAVA Access bridge for Windows.
Then, once OO is installed, open up any of the OO programs, go to Tools I think it is and then Options (Note this might be kinda tricky with JAWS, but it's doable thanks to the JAWS cursor.)
Then, go down to Accessibility (from this point, use of the JAWS cursor is needed.)
Then, Click on it using the JAWS left Mouse Button key on your keyboard (Numb Pad Slash or Caps Lock 9.)
Then, go down until you hear something like Support Assistive Technologies. and click on that to check it.
Then, go down to OK, click that with the left mouse button and restart OO and then, you're good to go.
HTH,
Jeffrey
lol JessE, well, I don't care, I still love windows with all my heart and the MAC is just gay! gay! I tell you, lol. ahahha.
But jeffrey, its the welcome window that's stumping me. I went in to OO and jaws's not reading it at all, lol. I even installed that java acess bridge or whatever, still not working, so yeah. lol