Reading powerpoint presentations in Linux

[Janina Sajka]

Not with Speakup, but you should have some level of success using Orca
and Open Office Impress. Please note that accessibility to PowerPoint is
problematic at best. The technical committees in charge of the ODF
protocols used by Open Office are working to improve that. But, of
course, this will only improve the odf files, and not Microsoft's Power
Point files, for the usual proprietary versus open source reasons.

Janina

Michael Whapples writes:
> Hello,
> I know this may be a bit much to hope for, but is there anyway to read powerpoint presentations in Linux? I of course am using speakup, but I also have got gnome and orca installed should it require using something like openoffice (should orca work with that part). I have asked the person who has said that they can give me this information in powerpoint format, whether they could convert it to another format, but I said I would make enquiries whether it would be possible for me to read powerpoint format.
> 
> From
> Michael Whapples
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