Re: [orca-list] Powerpoint presentations

[Daniel Dalton <daniel dalton47 gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 08:43:17AM -0500, Alex Midence wrote:
> 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

Hi, 

How to make the cursor "track in read only areas"?

> 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

Yes, I suppose 
> 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

TBH, I've never had any success reading pdfs in windows (although I
haven't tried particularly hard). Pdftotext seems to work pretty well
for me. 

I guess I'll just need to play with the jaws/powerpoint or pdftotext and
see which one works better. 

Cheers, 
Daniel