And unless I am missing something, appleworks is not accessible -- not
that it is so wonderful, but come on!
on Thursday 01/17/2008 Greg Kearney([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> According to Microsoft this morning Microsoft Office 08 is not
> accessible to the blind or print disabled using VoiceOver. So don't
> bother going out and buying it. I will now editorialize:
>
> At some point someone is going to start raising the issue of consumer
> products, in this case Microsoft Office, not being accessible and if
> producing such products is actionable under the Americans with
> Disabilities Act. That aside what in the world is Microsoft thinking?
> This was a product that was delayed because the code was changed to
> Xcode and here we have a major productivity application that is not
> accessible? Microsoft should be ashamed of itself and I for one would
> like to have someone from Microsoft offer some kind of explanation for
> this oversight.
>
> It is one thing for some small company with limited resources to not
> have an accessible application it is inexcusable for a company the
> size of Microsoft to re-write a major application like office and not
> have it be accessible. If Xcode would not compile non-accessible
> application we might have avoided this. It is interesting to note that
> the only accessible spreadsheet for the Mac, Tables, is the work of a
> lone programer who managed to do it with out the resources of a
> Microsoft or Apple.
>
> On a related note developer at Sun have been asking questions about
> accessibility on a developer list at Apple so perhaps there is hope
> that Sun will be developing an accessible version of Open Office.
> Let's hope so anyway. And let's hope that someone at Apple is able to
> get and explanation from Microsoft as to why an application written
> after VoiceOver's release is not able to be used by the blind and
> print disabled. And Apple your not off the hook here either Pages and
> Numbers are not accessible either I might add.
>
> Greg Kearney
> 535 S. Jackson St.
> Casper, Wyoming 82601
> 307-224-4022
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>
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