Re: StarOffice accessible

[Malte Timmermann <Malte Timmermann sun com>]

Jacob,

thanks for this information, hope to hear more from your Accessibility 
experience with StarOffice/OpenOffice.

Malte.

PS: IMHO you shouldn't need SAL_ACCESSIBILITY_ENABLED=1 for this.


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On 28.06.2003, 00:56:53, Jacob Schmude <jacobs surferie net> wrote 
regarding StarOffice accessible:


> 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