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Date: | Mon, 5 May 2014 07:47:49 -0700 |
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Hi All,
Last night, I installed free Open Office on my Windows 8.1 machine, and
it seems to be working well with Jaws 15 and NVDA 2014.1.
I wrote a very short sample document in the text editor (only two
sentences). I was able to read and select text. Spell check needs some
work as I wasn't
able to comfortably read the suggestions.
I also wrote a very simple spreadsheet, and I was able to read the text
and edit a column name, using Excel commands.
I started a slide presentation, but Open Office seems to have crashed
when I was trying to add a new slide. I'm not sure what happened exactly
because
I lost speech for a moment. When it came back, I found a screen that
told me the document recovery system would save my file.
In all three cases, Jaws and NVDA worked well. I tried Narrator, but it
wasn't able to read the text of my document, spreadsheet, or
presentation. I tested
this for maybe fifteen minutes. So far, I've only found one unlabeled
button; it was on the crash screen. For those who enjoy the odd fantasy
of wrapping the Office ribbon around Bill Gate's neck, Open Office uses
menus.
Just thought I'd report.
Ciao
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