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* Accessibility of Star-Office
@  John J. Boyer
   ` Nektarios Mallas
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From: John J. Boyer @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: blinux-list

Hello,
About the only thing I am using Windows for these days is also scanning
and OCR. But I have to  maintain compatibility with the rest of the
office, so I can't get rid of Windows for now. I'm wondering if anyone is
using Star-Office and how accessible it is. Can it read Microsoft Word
files? I must have that capability, even if we go to Linux completely.
Thanks.
John


-- 
Computers to Help People, Inc.
http://www.chpi.org
825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703





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* RE: Accessibility of Star-Office
   Accessibility of Star-Office John J. Boyer
@  ` Nektarios Mallas
   ` Janina Sajka
   ` Georgina
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Nektarios Mallas @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: blinux-list

Star office is quite flexible in terms of importing and exporting to various
microsoft format. However, star office is an x windows application and
therfore inaccessible to us.
Regards.
Nektarios.


-----Original Message-----
From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On
Behalf Of John J. Boyer
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 1:39 PM
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Accessibility of Star-Office


Hello,
About the only thing I am using Windows for these days is also scanning
and OCR. But I have to  maintain compatibility with the rest of the
office, so I can't get rid of Windows for now. I'm wondering if anyone is
using Star-Office and how accessible it is. Can it read Microsoft Word
files? I must have that capability, even if we go to Linux completely.
Thanks.
John


--
Computers to Help People, Inc.
http://www.chpi.org
825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703




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* Re: Accessibility of Star-Office
   Accessibility of Star-Office John J. Boyer
   ` Nektarios Mallas
@  ` Janina Sajka
   ` Georgina
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Janina Sajka @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: blinux-list

Star Office, and it's GNU counterpart from Sun, Open Office, are not yet 
accessible. It is true that documents created in this application (I use 
the singular because it's really only licensing which distinguishes the 
two) are compatible with MS Word. But, the application itself is not 
accessible yet--though Sun is actively working on it.

Instead, use catdoc, or use my favorite wv to read Microsoft Word 
documents under linux. You can find wv at http://www.wvware.com

 On Wed, 19 
Dec 2001, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Hello,
> About the only thing I am using Windows for these days is also scanning
> and OCR. But I have to  maintain compatibility with the rest of the
> office, so I can't get rid of Windows for now. I'm wondering if anyone is
> using Star-Office and how accessible it is. Can it read Microsoft Word
> files? I must have that capability, even if we go to Linux completely.
> Thanks.
> John
> 
> 
> 

-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper,
Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp

Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther
King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at
http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp

Learn how to make accessible software at
http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp




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* RE: Accessibility of Star-Office
   Accessibility of Star-Office John J. Boyer
   ` Nektarios Mallas
   ` Janina Sajka
@  ` Georgina
     ` Janina Sajka
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Georgina @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: blinux-list

Hi

V6 is quite accessible on the Windows platform but we don't have access to
the GUI under Linux.  I'm commenting upon speech access but your interested
in Braille aren't you?  Can you access X?  There's plenty of documentation
on Star Office.


-----Original Message-----
From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com
[mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
Sent: 19 December 2001 11:39
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Accessibility of Star-Office


Hello,
About the only thing I am using Windows for these days is also scanning
and OCR. But I have to  maintain compatibility with the rest of the
office, so I can't get rid of Windows for now. I'm wondering if anyone is
using Star-Office and how accessible it is. Can it read Microsoft Word
files? I must have that capability, even if we go to Linux completely.
Thanks.
John


--
Computers to Help People, Inc.
http://www.chpi.org
825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703




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* RE: Accessibility of Star-Office
   ` Georgina
@    ` Janina Sajka
       ` Georgina Joyce
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Janina Sajka @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: blinux-list

Wait a minute, what do you mean "quite accessible." Can you read 
content, or just the toolbar.

I don't mean to be dificult. It's just that I've heard this before, also 
from quite reputable folks who didn't look very deep.

Let me put it this way. Sun's accessibility staff aren't claiming that 
Star Office is accessible. They tell me directly that it needs a lot of 
work. So, do you know something Sun doesn't about its own product? Seems 
if it were accessible they'd be tauting it to the U.S. Government under 
our 508 law. Instead, they apologize and tell us they're working on it.
 On 
Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Georgina wrote:

> Hi
> 
> V6 is quite accessible on the Windows platform but we don't have access to
> the GUI under Linux.  I'm commenting upon speech access but your interested
> in Braille aren't you?  Can you access X?  There's plenty of documentation
> on Star Office.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com
> [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
> Sent: 19 December 2001 11:39
> To: blinux-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Accessibility of Star-Office
> 
> 
> Hello,
> About the only thing I am using Windows for these days is also scanning
> and OCR. But I have to  maintain compatibility with the rest of the
> office, so I can't get rid of Windows for now. I'm wondering if anyone is
> using Star-Office and how accessible it is. Can it read Microsoft Word
> files? I must have that capability, even if we go to Linux completely.
> Thanks.
> John
> 
> 
> --
> Computers to Help People, Inc.
> http://www.chpi.org
> 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
> 
> 
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper,
Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp

Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther
King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at
http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp

Learn how to make accessible software at
http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp




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* Re: Accessibility of Star-Office
     ` Janina Sajka
@      ` Georgina Joyce
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Georgina Joyce @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: blinux-list

Hi All

Firstly let me apologise for any misunderstand over this issue.  I did not intend to mislead anyone.  I'd intended to include the word becoming quite accessible.  I have been able to produce a document within Star Office using Dolphin's Supernova 4.5.  Cursor navigation does give some speech output but it is not very consistant.

It was athrow away comment as I was answering a request for information regarding access to Star Office under Linux.

Thanks for pointing my error out.  Although I don't think that it was necessary to be so sarcastic.  Its not very constructive.
>Wait a minute, what do you mean "quite accessible." Can you read 
>content, or just the toolbar.
>
>I don't mean to be dificult. It's just that I've heard this before, also 
>from quite reputable folks who didn't look very deep.
>
>Let me put it this way. Sun's accessibility staff aren't claiming that 
>Star Office is accessible. They tell me directly that it needs a lot of 
>work. So, do you know something Sun doesn't about its own product? Seems 
>if it were accessible they'd be tauting it to the U.S. Government under 
>our 508 law. Instead, they apologize and tell us they're working on it.
> On 
>Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Georgina wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> 
>> V6 is quite accessible on the Windows platform but we don't have access to
>> the GUI under Linux.  I'm commenting upon speech access but your interested
>> in Braille aren't you?  Can you access X?  There's plenty of documentation
>> on Star Office.
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com
>> [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
>> Sent: 19 December 2001 11:39
>> To: blinux-list@redhat.com
>> Subject: Accessibility of Star-Office
>> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> About the only thing I am using Windows for these days is also scanning
>> and OCR. But I have to  maintain compatibility with the rest of the
>> office, so I can't get rid of Windows for now. I'm wondering if anyone is
>> using Star-Office and how accessible it is. Can it read Microsoft Word
>> files? I must have that capability, even if we go to Linux completely.
>> Thanks.
>> John
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Computers to Help People, Inc.
>> http://www.chpi.org
>> 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Blinux-list mailing list
>> Blinux-list@redhat.com
>> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
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>> Blinux-list@redhat.com
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>> 
>
>-- 
>	
>				Janina Sajka, Director
>				Technology Research and Development
>				Governmental Relations Group
>				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
>
>Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
>
>Chair, Accessibility SIG
>Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
>http://www.openebook.org
>
>Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper,
>Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp
>
>Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther
>King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at
>http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp
>
>Learn how to make accessible software at
>http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp
>
>
>
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