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NVDA and Open Office
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Don H
How well does NVDA work with Open Office? If it does work with Open Office are there any info as to how to set up Open Office to work well?
Thanks
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hi.
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openoffice and libreoffice are supported by nvda by default installation. you dont need to use extra component for using them with nvda and only SayAall command and tables is not supported according to my experience.
On 12/6/16, Don H <lmddh50@...> wrote:
How well does NVDA work with Open Office? If it does work with Open --
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It works well even if you do not have Java installed. It is more accessible than Libreoffice but Libreoffice is a better program in every other way.
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Jorge Gonçalves <joport3@...>
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I just got curious from your answer. I am a LibreOffice user. What does make Open Office more accessible than LibreOffice? What are the main accessibility differences? I am only interested in the Word Processor. Cheers, Jorge Às 14:41 de 06/12/2016, Robert Kingett escreveu:
It works well even if you do not have Java installed. It is more accessible than Libreoffice but Libreoffice is a better program in every other way.
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well a lot more of the dialogs are read better
and, well, in some cases, are actually read whereas in
Libreoffice, the autocorrect options tables and check boxes are
not read. OpenOffice does not have any accessibility problems
but Libreoffice is a better program by far. If you won't be
changing a ton of settings then you can stay with LO.
On 12/6/2016 8:54 AM, Jorge Gonçalves
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David <trailerdavid@...>
Well, I pretty much second your question, except from me being totally
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depending on being able to use spreadsheets. Will NVDA let me operate the equivalent to MS Excel, under either OpenOffice or LibriOffice? David
On 12/6/2016 3:54 PM, Jorge Gonçalves wrote:
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I find that Microsoft excell is the best but the
open office excell is better in terms of accessibility. People
are working on LO's accessibility in their excell and it has a
long way to go
On 12/6/2016 10:45 AM, David wrote:
Well, I pretty much second your question, except from me being totally depending on being able to use spreadsheets. Will NVDA let me operate the equivalent to MS Excel, under either OpenOffice or LibriOffice? David On 12/6/2016 3:54 PM, Jorge Gonçalves wrote:Hello, I just got curious from your answer. I am a LibreOffice user. What does make Open Office more accessible than LibreOffice? What are the main accessibility differences? I am only interested in the Word Processor. Cheers, Jorge Às 14:41 de 06/12/2016, Robert Kingett escreveu:It works well even if you do not have Java installed. It is more accessible than Libreoffice but Libreoffice is a better program in every other way..
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Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgilland07@...>
What're the differences in the two?
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Chris.
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From: "Robert Kingett" <kingettr@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 9:41 AM Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA and Open Office It works well even if you do not have Java installed. It is more accessible than Libreoffice but Libreoffice is a better program in every other way.
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Quentin Christensen
Chris, Good question. HowToGeek wrote a long article explaining more than you ever need to know on that subject here: http://www.howtogeek.com/187663/openoffice-vs.-libreoffice-whats-the-difference-and-which-should-you-use/ To summarise, it started as one project and then for a number of reasons forked into two. LibreOffice currently seems to be updated more often but from an overall perspective, the feature sets of the two are largely similar.
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 7:08 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgilland07@...> wrote: What're the differences in the two? --
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Kevin Cussick
Am I correct in saying there is only a 32bit version of open office? you do get a 64bit version of Lo.
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On 06/12/2016 16:45, David wrote:
Well, I pretty much second your question, except from me being totally
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Quentin Christensen
It looks like there is only one version for windows, which would be 32-bit, as you said - On the download page there is an option for 32 or 64 bit versions for Linux: http://www.openoffice.org/download/ For LibreOffice, it looks like there is a 64 bit version although it's not right up the top next to the 32 bit version, but look a bit further down the page and it's listed as "Windows x86_64": https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Kevin Cussick via Groups.Io <the.big.white.shepherd@...> wrote: Am I correct in saying there is only a 32bit version of open office? you do get a 64bit version of Lo. --
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on windows, openoffice only has 32bit version which supports both 32 and 64bit windows, but libreoffice since version 5.0 has both 32 and 64 branch. also, 32 bit works in both 32 and 64bit versions of windows.
On 12/7/16, Quentin Christensen <quentin@...> wrote:
It looks like there is only one version for windows, which would be 32-bit, --
we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
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Walmir Schultz <wsautodidata@...>
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In my experience, both OpenOffice and LibreOffice are, to say the least, problematic with NVDA. The most annoying behavior es when NVDA suddenly stops. If you press ALT+TAB, other open applications continue to be read by NVDA, only office is muted. I tried many things, like pressing F2 to enter and exit edit mode (in spreadsheets), but the only way to solve the problem is reinitialize NVDA. In many spreadsheets, to make NVDA announce the cells contents after you open the file is only accomplished by first pressing F2 two times to enter and exit edit mode. In Writer, the NVDA+SPACE don't work at all. In more slow computers, the problems are worsened. In a very complex spreadsheet, Calc even stops responding for many minutes. Other annoyance in Calc is the way NVDA reads the results: even if you configure the cells to 2 or 3 decimal places, the whole number is announced. I noted also that NVDA has problems to read only the contents of each cell: it keeps reading the contents of the formula toolbar and one has to continually press arrows to move focus and force NVDA to read the contents. As I can't afford MS Office, I am still struggling with Calc. Unfortunately, in each new release of NVDA there are many improvements related to MS Office but none related to OpenOffice or LibreOffice. So, if you can, use MS Office, or, if you have a lot of patience, use LibreOfice. Em 06/12/2016 12:41, Robert Kingett escreveu:
It works well even if you do not have Java installed. It is more accessible than Libreoffice but Libreoffice is a better program in every other way.
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The Gamages
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I can't speak for Open office or the calc spreadsheet in Libre office, but to get over the problem of documents in writer becoming uneditable you can press the F6 function key followed by escape, pressing Alt tab a few times wil bring you back to an editable document as well. Best Regards, Jim.
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From: Walmir Schultz via Groups.Io Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2016 10:44 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA and Open Office Hi, In my experience, both OpenOffice and LibreOffice are, to say the least, problematic with NVDA. The most annoying behavior es when NVDA suddenly stops. If you press ALT+TAB, other open applications continue to be read by NVDA, only office is muted. I tried many things, like pressing F2 to enter and exit edit mode (in spreadsheets), but the only way to solve the problem is reinitialize NVDA. In many spreadsheets, to make NVDA announce the cells contents after you open the file is only accomplished by first pressing F2 two times to enter and exit edit mode. In Writer, the NVDA+SPACE don't work at all. In more slow computers, the problems are worsened. In a very complex spreadsheet, Calc even stops responding for many minutes. Other annoyance in Calc is the way NVDA reads the results: even if you configure the cells to 2 or 3 decimal places, the whole number is announced. I noted also that NVDA has problems to read only the contents of each cell: it keeps reading the contents of the formula toolbar and one has to continually press arrows to move focus and force NVDA to read the contents. As I can't afford MS Office, I am still struggling with Calc. Unfortunately, in each new release of NVDA there are many improvements related to MS Office but none related to OpenOffice or LibreOffice. So, if you can, use MS Office, or, if you have a lot of patience, use LibreOfice. Em 06/12/2016 12:41, Robert Kingett escreveu: It works well even if you do not have Java installed. It is more
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hi walmir.
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i completely agree! i wish that all my softwares be opensource including my office program! do you know any accessible and free word processor which supports unicode for my language farsi?
On 12/7/16, The Gamages <james.gamage@...> wrote:
Hello, --
we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
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Travis Siegel <tsiegel@...>
abiword supports lots of languages. I don't know if farsi is one of them or not, but it is opensource. I don't know how well it works (or not) with nvda, since I've not used it in years, but it's there for the taking if you want to try it.
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On 12/7/2016 8:31 AM, nasrin khaksar wrote:
hi walmir.
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i tried abiword and its not accessible using nvda.
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is there any option to make it accessible? does it support docx format?
On 12/7/16, Travis Siegel <tsiegel@...> wrote:
abiword supports lots of languages. I don't know if farsi is one of --
we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
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Kevin Cussick
Yes, correct just wondered I don't really suppose that 64bit would be much if any faster.
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On 06/12/2016 23:43, Quentin Christensen wrote:
It looks like there is only one version for windows, which would be
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Walmir Schultz <wsautodidata@...>
Hi, Gene,
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I am aware of the F6 and ALT+TAB keys to solve some annoyances" of LibreOffice with NVDA, but it is not the case here. My problems arise when I want to browse large documents using the same keystrokes I use in HTML (H for titles work in MS Word!). The F6 is a shortcut to move between the "structure" of the application and is not related to the NVDA command NVDA+SPACE used to toggle between browse and edit modes, and this is really what I want to do. Additionally, when NVDA "freezes" with LibreOffice, using ALT+TAB will only show me that other applications are being read normally and only LibreOffice are stopping NVDA. What I call "annoyances" are a series of compatibility problems between LibreOffice and NVDA. In various messages I listed only some of them, but as I work with very complex spreadsheets, they slow down my work. I like LibreOffice and also like NVDA and feel very disapointed when I have so many "annoyances" using both together. As these are open source software, I think the developers should make all efforts to solve the compatibility problems. Em 07/12/2016 10:31, The Gamages escreveu:
Hello,
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i realy love nvda and opensource programs.
but i wish that can use say all in using libreoffice with nvda. do you have a solution for this? On 12/8/16, Walmir Schultz via Groups.Io <wsautodidata@...> wrote: Hi, Gene, -- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
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