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

["Alex Midence" <alex midence gmail com>]

A fair enough assessment, I suppose.  Yes, 2000 did really suck, 2003 was much better and then 2007 and 2010 
took a slight step back at least for Jaws.  I understand other screen readers have a better time of it but, 
we digress.  :)


Alex M

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Ward [mailto:thomasward1978 gmail com] 
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 3:52 PM
To: alex midence gmail com
Cc: 'JAMES AUSTIN'; orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Latex and LibreOffice on ubuntu 12.04 LTS


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.