StarOffice accessible

[Jacob Schmude <jacobs surferie net>]

Hi all
Further to trying to make openoffice 1.1 beta 2 work with gnopernicus, I 
decided to try staroffice 6.1 beta 2. Openoffice and staroffice are very 
similar, in fact, I think openoffice was a spin-off version of staroffice 
(correct me if I'm wrong on this). At any rate, once the variable 
SAL_ACCESSIBILITY_ENABLED=1 was set, everything from the installation 
onward was accessible, though some funny things happened. These things also 
happened when running the applications after installation. First, something 
must happen to keyboard input that does something to gnopernicus. For 
instance, keyboard echo does not work. However, what I'm typing appears on 
my powerbraille just fine. A similar thing happens to the keypad, I can't 
use the keypad. However, braille review keys work as they should, and I can 
emulate the keypad using them. Odd. The only other thing I've noticed as 
that gnopernicus crashes when trying to enter data in the spreadsheet. 
However, it's gnopernicus which seems to have the problem here. Apart from 
these bugs, staroffice 6.1 beta 2 seems quite useable, and is more 
accessible than openoffice 1.1 beta 1 was. So for those having trouble with 
the latest openoffice, give staroffice a shot. Just thought I'd let 
everyone know my findings here.
HTH