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So, I'm debating with myself if it's time to ditch Microsoft365 & switch to something like #LibreOffice I'm not sure how #accessible it is to #blind users as I've never really looked into using it before, but I'd like some opinions from others before I devote my time & some SSD space to it. If it's worth it, then ditching both MS365 & Copilot Pro would save me around $30 a month. I'd still need to think of how to replace OneDrive, as having a 2TB drive in the cloud is sort of handy.
#accessible #blind #libreoffice
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Robert Kingett, blind
Robert Kingett, blind
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If you're an editor, I found the #LibreOffice track changes feature is not as accessible as MSWord is. There's a bunch of dialogs that simply don't read, like the templates dialog. The ones that find it accessible probably never go beyond using it as a way to just type documents but the minute you have to start formatting stuff or working collaboratively or working with templates, well, that's when it starts to fail hard for me. Then again, other blind people are far more lenient about accessibility issues than I am and I believe other blind people have trained themselves to getting around the inaccessibility so they might say it's fully accessible. @sasquatch
#libreoffice @Sasquatch

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David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@weirdwriter In the Windows universe you're going to get a much more polished and robust experience with Microsoft 365 if you're engaging in complex editing beyond just inserting, deleting, cutting and pasting. In Windows I'd never give up Microsoft 365, not only for this reason but for the terabyte of OneDrive storage.
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