Re: [orca-list] Accessibility of Open/Libre Office VS MS Office (was Government payed assistive technologies)

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
Regarding daisy playback, there's an open bug against gnome documents to
provide support for this format. There are also two more bugs, one
against tracker, the search engine that gnome uses, and shared mime
info, to provide support for the daisy mime type, so all applications
would need to do to support daisy would be to indicate that they support
that format. This has little to do with orca so I'll start there, but
just letting everyone know that I for one haven't given up on this
format being usable in linux. Windows certainly should not be the only
OS with readers for this format, although I hear mac is supposed to have
apps for this format. Again, nothing to do with orca so I'm not trying
to start a debate.
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 09/04/2015 04:39 PM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I share this dream. That's why we're preparing a crowdfunding campaign
> to submit to community before end 2015. We'll likely show it to Orca
> devs and community.
>
> Regards,
>
> Le 04/09/2015 23:00, B. Henry a écrit :
> > Just a pipe dream, but cause I feel like sharing:
> > If countries or groups of countries, the E.U., the U.N., or someone
> > would spend just a relatively drop in the bucket amount of money to
> > keep a few teams
> > of good idealistic programmers contributing to existing projects, and
> > sometimes build something that is not comercially all the practical
> > from scratch,
> > I reckon Libre-office could go over the top and be every bit as
> > accessible as MS-office and fix most other issues. Maybe a new and
> > better FOS OCR engine
> > could be developed, and little things like FOS cross ploatform daisy
> > players could be knocked out.
> >
> > Yeah, I know that this can't happen in any short to medium term future
> > in the U.S. for sure, and probably not in a lot of countries as it'd
> > be risking
> > private sector jobs, but this is my dream, and one I'd finance on a
> > smaller scale if I were every to win a lottery.
> > Perhaps countries adopting open document standards will have some
> > notable impact on what consumers care about and OEMs put on their
> > machines.
> > Just imagine if $2 from every laptop that Dell, Lenovo and HP sold
> > went to the Open
> > Document Foundation. I seriously think there should be a very small
> > tax on computers and smartphones, (might as well just call them
> > computers with
> > onboard 3 or 4g cards anyway), that goes toward universal digital
> > accessability. To Apple's credit they kind of do this, but of course
> > it only helps
> > apple devices/users, and only in the way that apple deems best.
> > Such a tax could insure the continued growth and accellerated
> > improvement  of NVDA, ORCA, Speakup, etc, and integrate high quality
> > OCR and the like in
> > to more devices and for free.
> > I'm all infavor of paying my fair share, but do think it a reasonable
> > social stimulous, leveling of proverbial playing fields, etc., to have
> > the tools
> > disabled people available at low cost or for free. This kind of
> > program could help the world over, both countries and regions where
> > there is already gov
> > assistance and training, and of course even more so for those who live
> > places or in cirrcumstances where there is no gov program for them.
> >    xcuse the typos...