I've used VoiceOver with OpenOffice in the past (Snow Leopard), and <a href="http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/applications.html">Apple still lists OO as a supported app</a>. It might be helpful to make sure that the student has updated both the OS and OO.<div>
<br></div><div>If your student needs text to speech access rather than a full screenreader, then using Apple's built-in Speech will probably be a good solution. I send these links to a lot of students:</div><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Speech is the built-in text reading software your Mac has. There are great instructions in video and print versions for using it for various purposes</span><br style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">To read text in TextEdit, Safari, and many other programs: </span><a href="http://etc.usf.edu/techease/4all/vision/how-can-i-use-text-to-speech-in-mac-os-x/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,68,136);line-height:19px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://etc.usf.edu/techease/4all/vision/how-can-i-use-text-to-speech-in-mac-os-x/</a><br style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">To read a PDF file aloud: </span><a href="http://etc.usf.edu/techease/4all/learning/how-do-i-use-previews-speech-feature-to-listen-to-a-pdf/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,68,136);line-height:19px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://etc.usf.edu/techease/4all/learning/how-do-i-use-previews-speech-feature-to-listen-to-a-pdf/</a><br style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">To automatically convert a text file to an audio file in iTunes: </span><a href="http://etc.usf.edu/techease/4all/learning/how-do-i-use-the-speech-service-in-mac-os-x-to-record-text-into-an-audio-file/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,68,136);line-height:19px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://etc.usf.edu/techease/4all/learning/how-do-i-use-the-speech-service-in-mac-os-x-to-record-text-into-an-audio-file/</a></div>
<div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#444444" face="Segoe UI, Lucida Grande, Arial"><span style="line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#444444" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px">And I'd second Jeff's statement - GhostReader is a good inexpensive choice with some nice voices.</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><font color="#444444" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#444444" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px">Hope that's helpful,</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><font color="#444444" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px">Shawn</span></font></div><b>Shawn Foster, MA</b><br>Assistive Technology Specialist<br>Disability Resources<br>
<b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">Southern Oregon University</span></b><br>(541)552-6213<br><a href="http://atatsou.blogspot.com" target="_blank">atatsou.blogspot.com</a><br><div><font color="#ff0000" face="arial, sans-serif"><b><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Nies, Gerry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerry.nies@email.und.edu" target="_blank">gerry.nies@email.und.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I am not a Mac user but trying to learn.<br>
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I have a student with a Mac who needs text to speech for his text books. He uses OpenOffice for word processing and from what I can determine Voiceover does not work with OpenOffice. Nor does Mac version of Read&Write.<br>
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Is there any no/low cost software out there?<br>
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.<br>
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Thanks<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Gerry Nies<br>
University of North Dakota<br>
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