IBM Lotus Symphony, a free accessible office suite?
Christopher Chaltain <[email protected]>
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Yesterday I came across IBM Lotus Symphony. This is an office suite consisting of applications to work on documents, spread sheets and presentations. It supports the open document format, as well as the MS Office file formats, and it seems to be free. Even more excitingly, there may be a chance it's accessible. After playing around with it for a few minutes, I'm still optimistic that it is accessible. If so, this will give us another office suite option besides MS Office, and this one is free. Note that I've tried Open Office, and after a few minutes, I've always concluded that under Windows and with JFW, it isn't really usable. I've only played with Symphony for a few minutes. so there may be some show stoppers out there, and I'm not sure if they're still committed to accessibility, but it's still under beta so this is our chance to get our input in there. I got it from Developer Works at http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa. -- Christopher [email protected] VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List. Archived on the World Wide Web at http://listserv.icors.org/archives/vicug-l.html Signoff: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected]