[ubuntu-us-ma] Business Plan of Action for Ubuntu Professional Support & Distribution

[Dave Hunt]

At the time of that study, Openoffice accessibility was limited, at best.  There is now access to OO in Windows, Macos, and Linux.  Thanks to NVDA for Win, Voiceover for OSX, and the Orca screen reader for Gnome.  The OO accessibility I'm aware of is not complete-- the presentation tool is barely usable.  I'll have to check the database.  I've used the word processor and spreadsheet, all-be-it, for limited purposes, with both Orca and Voiceover.  I'm blind, btw.


Best Regards,



Dave  Hunt




On Jun 13, 2010, at 9:43 PM, Daniel Hollocher wrote:

>> and take it to some of these politicians - Duval Partick comes to mind
>> - and let them use it for a week or so and see if it could meet the
>> needs of the State of Massachusetts. If we could get the state to
>> switch to Ubuntu, them maybe we could get the federal government to
>> follow. As I recall, the response from this group was decidedly
>> uninterested. One problem mentioned was that it would take a
> 
> 
> Hey Bill,
> Accessibility might be an issue with the government.  I thought
> someone in a different discussion posted a link about a study done in
> MA focusing on accessibility issues, and the many obstacles there
> still existed with linux ( or maybe openoffice).
> 
> I think it was this:
> http://blogs.sun.com/korn/entry/massachusetts_open_document_and_accessibility+
> 
> Dan
> 
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