I have never felt that Open Office and JAWS was a usable combination. I 
think you can mess around a bit with the word processor, especially if 
you have the Java Access Bridge installed, but it's always felt kind of 
clunky to me. I've heard that it's better with NVDA and Voice Over, but 
I can't say I've ever tried those combinations.

I've recently talked to someone who's using Jarte, a free word processor 
based on MS's Workpad, with JAWS and they seemed pretty happy. You can 
learn more about Jarte at http://www.jarte.com/.

I've recently started using Symphony 1.2 with JFW 10 and some fixes 
which I've heard will be included in the next update of JFW 10, and so 
far this seems to be a pretty nice combination. You can get Symphony 1.2 
from http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home. 
The registration process can seem a bit intimidating. sorry about that!

John McCann wrote:
> Hello Fellow Listers:
>
> Well, the subject line pretty much covers it. Specifically, I'm interested
> in knowing whether anyone here is successfully using open office with JAWS.
> I just installed open office on my backup / test-bed computer, and found via
> the JAWS curser that there's a whole lot of initial setup information I'm
> supposed to enter, but there's no accessible way to do so. It is possible,
> of course, that the programs in open office are usable beyond this initial
> setup phase, but there's no way to know that until I get assistance in
> entering the initial data, and I won't even bother doing that if the suite
> of programs, the word processor in particular, is inaccessible.
>
> John
>
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