Re: [orca-list] Powerpoint presentations

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Hi, Daniel,

I used Impress for this some time ago.  I had to make sure the cursor was
tracking in read-only areas and then I just had to do my best to make sure I
covered all I needed to.  I still missed a bunch of stuff though.  Honestly,
reading them with Jaws in a VM is going to be your best bet.  Impress has
very bad a11y support right now and no one appears to be the least bit
interested in addressing it, a trend which I don't see changing in the
foreseeable future if the past is any indicator.  Impress has been wonkey
for years and years.  Jaws does a good job with Powerpoints.  You'll have to
read them in slide show view though.  The boxes may give you trouble if the
stuff is all graphical.  You could try exporting to PDF but only if you have
Acrobat installed to ensure maximum accessibility.  Then, you will need to
use the Windows VM and Jaws to read the PDF but you should find it more
manageable than the presentation.  Sorry my news isn't better.

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Daniel
Dalton
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 8:23 AM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: [orca-list] Powerpoint presentations

Hi, 

I need to be able to read powerpoint presentations. 

Usually, I just convert to html with unoconv and it works pretty well.
However, I've noticed this doesn't work for tables or text boxes. 

Libreoffice impress doesn't seem to work overly well with orca (or am I
missing something)? 
The only methods I have currently are to export the presentation to pdf and
then convert the pdf back to text (kind of messy). Or just read the
powerpoint inside my windows vm with jaws (again not good). 

Does anyone have any better ideas how to access these presentations - heavy
on tables and text boxes. 

Thanks in advance. 

Daniel
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