KOffice NewsThe news from KOffice, an office suite integrated with KDEKOffice gets major boost for the (near) blind- November 27, 2005 KOffice is a part of KDE which means that assistive technologies already available in KDE will be available in KOffice. This was not yet the case for so called Text-to-Speech (TTS) technologies. Until today! The next KOffice release will allow near blind users to have the text spoken of widgets under the mouse pointer andor widgets that have the focus. It also adds a "Speak Text" option in the context menu of the KWord Document Structure Area, which is useful for speaking a document. The...http://www.koffice.org/news.php#itemKOfficegetsmajorboostforthenearblind |