Richard,
I can't speak for Jaws as I use NVDA.
And I have not used MS Office in a professional capacity since Office 2000.
But, the guy doing the tutorials, although he focuses on LibreOffice, he
emphasises that a lot of what he talks about early on is conceptual and
relevant to whatever you are using, be it LibreOffice, Corel or MS Office.
A lot of folks never use templates, which is a big mistake because it is
such a boost to productivity and quality of presentation.
What I will say about LibreOffice, focussing on Windows, is it is
absolutely great. I cannot fault it at all. There are some
accessibility quirks which I am quite happy to share off-list if you
like. If you install it, and I would recommend ignoring Apache
OpenOffice from now on, and get to using it I hope we can share both ways.
And the tutorials on HPR, done by a guy that calls himself 'Ahuka' are
first-class.
He also has a page at:
http://www.ahuka.com
Where you will find notes and links to the tutorials.
Hacker Public Radio is great all round if you like tech stuff.
Mike
On 29/05/2015 10:12, Richard Godfrey-McKay wrote:
Mike, I have both Office 2010, and LibreOffice 4.3 on my machine. Use the
former, haven't yet used the latter, but wondered if:
1. You think it's any easier to use than Office 2010;
2. Does it have Outlook and the calendar, and
3. Should the tutorial you mentioned be sufficient for me to get reasonable
use out of it running JFW 16?
Thanks,
Richard
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Mike Ray
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessible invoicing software?
Mo,
I'm currently using a combination of LibreOffice Writer and LibreOffice Calc
to set up profit and loss accounts, status tracking for assets and business
letters in Writer.
Both Calc and Writer are very accessible on Windows with NVDA and on Linux
with Orca.
There is one small problem with Calc, when opening a spreadsheet it sometimes
needs something typed in to start the speech. But you can undo any changes
that mess up what is in the cell you land on.
I strongly recommend if you are going to use ANY office product, be it
LibreOffice or MS Office, that you listen to the whole of Ahuka's serious on
LibreOffice on Hacker Public Radio.
The way forward with both documents and spreadsheets is templates, templates,
templates and more templates.
Get some good templates set up and you will be good to go.
There are some great small business education pages on the BBC which explain
the concepts of profit and loss and other stuff.
Also...as an aside, on Linux 'pandoc' will convert a dozen different formats
into Open Document format. I have been writing business plans and generating
documents with tables of figures embedded in text with a combination of
markdown, txt2tags and pandoc.
We can talk on Ventrilo if you need more info.
Mike
On 26/05/2015 23:20, Mobeen Iqbal wrote:
Hello Everyone.
I am wondering which software, either installable or web based people
tend to use for generating invoices? It would be very useful to know
which software is the most accessible for keeping your accounts up to
date, and for generating invoices in different formats, accessible if
possible...
any help greatly appreciated, many thanks in advance.
all the best,
Mo.
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