More coal on the fire

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi Alan,

Agreed!  I am in fact a big Linux advocate, at least for the server side of
the house.  For the client side, I'm still a bit of a Windows advocate.
That is probably mostly because I have a solid screen access solution for
Windows.  We'll see what happens with Gnopernicus access to the Gnome GUI.

Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Dayley" <alandd@mindspring.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: More coal on the fire


> I also have found that Open Office is not perfect, with DOC or XLS files.
> Things out of the ordinary, like odd input boxes or lesser used math
> functions do not translate that well.
>
> On the other hand, the developers are to be commended for doing as well as
> they have in getting a program to mostly work with a proprietary and
closed
> format.  I would not want the task of reverse engineering the MS DOC
format!
> I've done stuff like that before but not with a format that complex.
>
> Alan
>
> On Monday 16 September 2002 07:55 pm, Darrell Shandrow wrote:
> > Hi Fred,
> >
> > Unfortunately, I am not quite convinced with respect to Open Office.
Some
> > of my colleagues have sent me Open Office documents which have been
> > converted to Microsoft Word format, and they have lacked some structural
> > elements which they would have contained if they had been created using
> > Microsoft Word.  I am a blind person, and document accessibility to
screen
> > readers is paramount.  At this time, when it comes to accessibility, MS
has
> > it all over Sun.  Currently, even the Windows version of Open Office
isn't
> > accessible to screen readers.
> >
> >    Thanks.
>
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