Re: Using Abiword with a screenreader

On 05/15/2009 02:29 PM, Tamara Cook wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Lately, I tried Abiword and I was positively surprised. I prefer it to
> microsoft Word and Open Office, and it works great except for one problem:
>
> since I'm blind, my successful work depends on the cooperation of a
> screenreader and the working program. I use Jaws and nvda as
> screenreader and they are not able to find the cursor in an opened
> document. I found a thread about this topic, where the problem is
> explained as bug 3124:
> http://www.abiword.org/mailinglists/abiword-user/02/may/0056.html
> My question: is there already a possibility to elude this bug?

The bug is still open. That mean it hasn't been fixed or even
investigated. We don't have much resources and do what we can with what
we have, on our own time (even less when it comes to dealing with Windows).

Also JAWS support is unlikely to ever happen do to licensing restrictions.

Sorry to not be of any more help.

Hub
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Received on Fri May 15 21:40:30 2009