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

Hi, Krishnakant,

If it is not too much trouble, I am supremely interested in your presentation solution.  I do use powerpoint 
but the level of control I have over some of the way in which content appears is limited due to all the 
pointing and clicking people have to do.  I know basic html and can usually muddle my way through simple 
javascript code so, I'm hoping it isn't anything too difficult for me.  While a lot of the heavy lifting is 
taken care of with pre-formatted slide types, I still would like to have some way of directly getting under 
the hood of a presentation.  I assume you use Firefox to display your content?  I have it on my Windows 
machine, of course.  I wonder if the paging could also be done with Google Chrome and Chromevox.  Hmm ... 
*ponder*

Alex M



-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Krishnakant mane
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 11:36 PM
To: Christopher Chaltain
Cc: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Latex and LibreOffice on ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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


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Christopher (CJ)
chaltain gmail com
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