OpenOffice 3.0 offers even more
There is something else about OpenOffice.org 3.0 that I think your readership will find VERY interesting.
OpenOffice.org is the first application that is multi-platform accessible, exposing a rich set of information to assistive technologies on Windows, Solaris, GNU/Linux and Mac OS X (Intel-based Macs only). OpenOffice.org 3.0 is the first version to run natively on Mac OS X that will have the look and feel of an Aqua application while supporting the Mac OS X accessibility APIs, and integrating well with the built-in Macintosh VoiceOver screen reader - offering better accessibility support than many other applications available for Mac OS X.
“Sun and the OpenOffice.org community take accessibility very seriously, whether in schools, in the home, in the workplace or in government institutions. An accessible solution for editing documents, spreadsheets, and creating presentations is of vital importance to the hundreds of millions of people worldwide with disabilities,” said Peter Korn, accessibility architect at Sun Microsystems and co-chair of the OASIS OpenDocument accessibility subcommittee. “We have listened and responded to the community and our engineering efforts are a direct result of the requests we’ve received from the user community and exemplifies the innovation and success of the many open source initiatives at Sun and OpenOffice.org.”
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/b44/b25">Thomas Wlodkowski Director of Accessibility at AOL</a>
"As a blind consumer who uses Mac OS 10 to carry out daily office tasks, I was pleased to see the progress that the OpenOffice.org community has made in addressing compatibility with Apple's VoiceOver screen reader. It is reassuring to know that consumers with disabilities will be able to move between computer platforms and enjoy equivalent access to applications that are critical to basic job performance."
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