Nisus Writer is not fully acessible yet. I have been in touch with
their support people so hopefuly they will get back to me But it is
still a very accessible and usable product.
On 17 Jan 2008, at 22:53, migara wrote:
please check nisus writer, no need for microsoft! shame in anycase
is obvious!!!
Il giorno 17/gen/08, alle ore 18:23, John covici ha scritto:
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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How do
you spend it?
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