Yup. Seems fairly accessible. Still some holes but many reports of good usability. There are also lots of alternatives that work well, TextEdit being one free example which comes with OSX and can read/write Microsoft Word files.
CB hank smith wrote: > so what do we use? > open office? > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com> > *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 26, 2009 10:39 AM > *Subject:* Re: has anyone tried neooffice with vo? > > Hmmm. I thought NeoOffice and OpenOffice were different products. > Originally OpenOffice used X11 (a unix windowing system) and > NeoOffice used Java to do the UI from the OpenOffice base code. > More recently openOffice came out with an Aqua version which uses > native UI APIs instead of X11. Here is one comparison site: > > http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/NeoOffice_Feature_Comparison > > In their table for support of Mac OSX accessibility framework they > have a red x which implies that voiceover support isn't there. > > CB > > Ben King wrote: >> Dear Anouk, >> >> Welcome to Apple Land. On the previous podcast of the Mac Review >> Cast, they spoke about Neooffice. It sounds interesting. I do >> not know if it is accessible with Voiceover. Good Luck. Have a >> wonderful day. >> Blessings, >> Ben King >> On Aug 26, 2009, at 3:17 AM, a radix wrote: >> >>> Hello, I am reading through a swithc-to-the-mac kind of site and >>> they recommend neooffice for office applications. I had never >>> heard of this package before and I wondered if anyone has used >>> it and if it is accessible? >>> Greetings, Anouk, >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
