Re: StarOffice accessible

[Jacob Schmude <jacobs surferie net>]

Hi
Maybe I shouldn't need SAL_ACCESSIBILITY_ENABLED=1, but if I don't set it 
it doesn't speak. So I'm just going to have to leave it there. I've done a 
bit more with the spreadsheet. Turns out that it will read an already 
constructed spreadsheet without crashing reasonably well. However, as soon 
as I try to enter data... gnopernicus crashes. Staroffice doesn't, and I 
can kill and rerun gnopernicus and be right back where I was, but it isn't 
all that useable if I can't enter data. Anyone know if this can be fixed? 
I've also confirmed that gnopernicus is not properly intercepting keyboard 
input while in these apps. Keyboard echo and the keypad don't work, and 
when backspacing or deleting nothing is spoken. Sure glad I've got a 
powerbraille. Arrowing left and right works fine, though, as does arrowing 
from line to line (it even tells me when I've entered a new paragraph, 
useful for proofreading). Spell checker in writer works quite well, too. 
Doesn't spell the word out, but you can arrow left and right in the text 
box which contains the word and figure it out from there, as the text box 
contains only the word and not context. Suggestions list speaks fine, as do 
the push buttons. I've had no crashes in writer yet and I'd say it's just 
about ready, at least for basic wordprocessing. Of course being able to 
open m$ word documents is a great thing, too. Haven't tried the real 
advanced formatting yet, but I'll be sure to play around with that. I think 
the keyboard problem is the only thing needing fixing at this point, at 
least where writer is concerned. As for openoffice, I've hit a wall. It 
just won't talk, so I'm sticking with staroffice.
HTH




At 08:58 6/30/2003 +0000, you wrote:

> Jacob,
>
> thanks for this information, hope to hear more from your Accessibility
> experience with StarOffice/OpenOffice.