Re: [orca-list] Latex and LibreOffice on ubuntu 12.04 LTS

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Alex,

Well, I'll confess I haven't touched MS Office in years so perhaps I am 
behind the times. However, when I had to use Powerpoint in Office 2000 
accessibility down right sucked. That's why I said what I said, because 
my past experience with Powerpoint, Corel's presentation software, and 
now LibreOffice's presentation software it seems to me by and large they 
haven't been too accessible up until very recently. And going by what 
you just said about Powerpoint 2010 being accessible its probably the 
only presentation software that is accessible at the moment.

Cheers!

On 4/30/2012 4:25 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> Screen readers do all right with presentations in windows.  I'm a corporate trainer.  I use presentation 
> software literally every day and would be hard pressed to do my job well without one.  This is in response to 
> your comment that screen readers don't do well with presentation software in general.  They do all right as 
> long as stuff has text labels and alternate text similar to what you find in html on the web.  It's a pity 
> about Impress.  I used it some for reading powerpoints for a college class I took when my home pc didn't have 
> powerpoint on it.  I installed a Vinux virtual machine and was able to make them work after a fashion.  It 
> looks like a killer bit of software.  I  wish I could use it in an official capacity for work because the 
> wizards are quite nice.  I use powerpoint 2010 with Jaws 11.0.1476 in conjunction with MS Office's new self 
> voicing functionality in areas Jaws will not read well.
>
> Alex Midence
> Milliman, Inc.