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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