Previous versions of Office (97 and the like) have worse accessibility, so if they were good enough for workers then OO.o should be too...
That's one of the most assinine comments I've read this morning. I don't claim to know any of the politics behind this, but it sounds to me like you're saying that disabled users shouldn't ask for improvements simply so the anti-MS Slashdot crowd can continue to put anything related to Microsoft in an evil light.
Forget the politics, the monopolies, and everything else. There are real people that are missing out. Today. You can whine all you want that the companies that make the products only make them Office because Office is a monopoly, but that's not the blind person's fault and they shouldn't be forced to not getting improvements in their life simply because some nerds want to "get the man".
Jesus. Why not accept there is a problem and take advantage of the fact that OpenOffice is open: fix it. Today. Then you can cry about MS strong arming everyone. But until that happens, I can't really blame the blind for not wanting to go with something with questionable support for them. Jesus, I can't even imagine how they hold up with all the "AJAX" apps being pushed out these days...
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That's one of the most assinine comments I've read this morning. I don't claim to know any of the politics behind this, but it sounds to me like you're saying that disabled users shouldn't ask for improvements simply so the anti-MS Slashdot crowd can continue to put anything related to Microsoft in an evil light.
Forget the politics, the monopolies, and everything else. There are real people that are missing out. Today. You can whine all you want that the companies that make the products only make them Office because Office is a monopoly, but that's not the blind person's fault and they shouldn't be forced to not getting improvements in their life simply because some nerds want to "get the man".
Jesus. Why not accept there is a problem and take advantage of the fact that OpenOffice is open: fix it. Today. Then you can cry about MS strong arming everyone. But until that happens, I can't really blame the blind for not wanting to go with something with questionable support for them. Jesus, I can't even imagine how they hold up with all the "AJAX" apps being pushed out these days...