Re: [orca-list] Which Office? Libre or Apachi?

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

I used openoffice just before all the shtuph hit the proverbial fan and while it still had quite a few bugs 
mostly writer worked well enough, and writer's all I ever use much. Since 2011 I've used Libreoffice and 
things continue to improve I hear although I've personally noticed little difference with what I do, but 
that's alright as the only problems that effect me are not accessability related, just problems that 
microsoft wants to persist so that many interprise customers will be forced to keep shelling out for 
ms-office. Of course this has drive many to google docs, and MS has more to fear from Google than they do 
from the open-document foundation most likely...
So, in short LO is what most folks use as Peter states because it is default on more  distros than is OO, and 
it is mostly a pleasure to use. I suspect that OO is quite accessible as well, but I don't know anyone using 
it on Linux at the moment to ask how it is going for them.
--
B.H.


On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 01:26:56PM +0100, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
> The way I understand all this is that IBM has donated their symphony
> accessibility code to openoffice a while ago. Their aim was to provide
> support for extended IAccessible2 interfaces on windows providing better
> accessibility. Now openoffice is approaching the release with this code
> included. Libreoffice has also adopted this and in their upcoming 4.2
> release windows users will be able to use this new accessibility support for
> windows as an experimental feature. In 4.3 it should be the only
> accessibility API available on windows.
> Of course while doing all this it is probable some of the non platform
> specific accessibility related issues were also fixed. Since libreoffice has
> this accessibility related work included along with some optimizations by
> the libreoffice developers I my-self assume libre office is okay to use
> since that's already included in most of the modern distros.
> There are still some noticeable accessibility related bug reports unresolved
> in both the trackers openoffice and also libreoffice. Of course in orca
> master there are some more improvements related to libreoffice support so at
> least we know the situation is improving and will most likelly improve even
> further for us.
>
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
> On 06.02.2014 12:55, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > Since the original Open Office was forked and the old Oracle code was
> > apparently passed over to Apache and IBM has apparently injected their
> > stuff from Lotus Symphony including some presumed a11y stuff, I'm
> > wondering now which might be a better way to go. I realize most Linux
> > distros today are probably using LibreOffice with its more liberal
> > licensing terms, but in view of recent breakage of a11y in latest
> > versions of LibreOffice, I wonder if the Apache version might be a
> > better or more accessible way to go.
> >
> > Any ideas? comments?
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