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

[Justin Harford <blindstein gmail com>]

This might not fit here, but why not use LaTeX Beamer for presentations? 

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On Apr 30, 2012, at 9:35 PM, Krishnakant mane <krmane gmail com> wrote:

> For presentations, I have a very simple idea.
> I had downloaded a html/ css template which one html file for the slides and the supporting css files.
> There is a javascript, that changes the slide in the current div when page up and page down keys are 
> pressed.
> I use bluefish editor along with Orca and creating presentation is a snap for me.
> As it is I know a few html tags, and afterall here it is just the matter of replicating the slides and 
> adding points inside the slides.
> If some one needs it I can send off the list.
> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 04:34:17PM -0500, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> > I'm not sure what versions I was using, I'm guessing it was Office 2003
> > and JFW 11, and I still felt creating presentations was a tedious
> > challenge, and it was impossible to create anything other than pretty
> > simple presentations. I'm glad to see things may have gotten better in
> > that respect.
> >
> > I actually thought JFW 11 and IBM Lotus Symphony was the best GUI
> > combination for making presentations, but a lot of what I said above
> > about MS Office was also still true for Symphony. I'm not sure what's up
> > with Symphony development though, and I never could get it to install on
> > Ubuntu. I was definitely interested in playing around with Symphony and
> > Orca though.
> >
> > It's been a while since I used LaTeX, but when I did it was with
> > Emacspeak and probably AucTeX. I also seem to recall using a package
> > called SliTeX and even gnuplot to make some pretty snazzy presentations.
> >
> > On 30/04/12 16:05, Alex Midence wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > -- 
> > Christopher (CJ)
> > chaltain gmail com
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