From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from opera.rednote.net ([74.53.93.34]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1IYiUj-0001aw-00 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:24:33 -0400 Received: from opera.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by opera.rednote.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l8LDOWkg008275 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:24:33 GMT Received: (from janina@localhost) by opera.rednote.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l8LDOW75008274 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:24:32 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:24:32 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Reading powerpoint presentations in Linux Message-ID: <20070921132432.GZ6144@rednote.net> References: <007901c7fc29$e41e5400$4001a8c0@Mikelaptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <007901c7fc29$e41e5400$4001a8c0@Mikelaptop> X-Operating-System: Linux opera.rednote.net 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7spk Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:24:33 -0000 Not with Speakup, but you should have some level of success using Orca and Open Office Impress. Please note that accessibility to PowerPoint is problematic at best. The technical committees in charge of the ODF protocols used by Open Office are working to improve that. But, of course, this will only improve the odf files, and not Microsoft's Power Point files, for the usual proprietary versus open source reasons. Janina Michael Whapples writes: > Hello, > I know this may be a bit much to hope for, but is there anyway to read powerpoint presentations in Linux? I of course am using speakup, but I also have got gnome and orca installed should it require using something like openoffice (should orca work with that part). I have asked the person who has said that they can give me this information in powerpoint format, whether they could convert it to another format, but I said I would make enquiries whether it would be possible for me to read powerpoint format. > > From > Michael Whapples > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina@a11y.org Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org