My understanding is that if the developer uses standard user interface widgets then those expose accessibility information to VO (more or less) automatically. That implies that Microsoft has implemented their own custom controls for Office but did not implement the communication to the Apple Accessibility API. So if you do try to run MS Word you'll find the pull-down menus (Apple UI stuff) are accessible but the rest (Microsoft custom stuff) is not. This is a rather poor showing from 3.5 years of development work at Microsoft since the Apple APIs were well known and others (Open Office) have shown it can be done. In addition, it's been over a year (January 15, 2008) since Office 2008 was released with no changes in accessibility, so there appears to be no movement or desire to fix the problems. I did have dinner with the Microsoft accessibility manager for IE at CSUN and asked him about Office for Mac. All he could do was give a long sad sigh and say it wasn't right, but it wasn't his bailiwick to malign another division's products.
CB Simon Fogarty wrote: > I thought VO was compatible with all office products under leopard? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Kearney > Sent: Saturday, 14 March 2009 9:41 p.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Need a Spreadsheet Program > > > All speadsheet programs will open CSV files. MS Office/Excel is not > accessible or compatible with VoiceOver but OpenOffice, Apple Numbers and > Tables are. > > Greg > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Simon Fogarty <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If apple don't then they do support >> Ms office / excel and that will handle csv files. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tiffany D >> Sent: Friday, 13 March 2009 11:10 a.m. >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Need a Spreadsheet Program >> >> >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm looking for a program that can handle csv files. I've never used >> a spreadsheet in my life so have no clue what it's like. So please, >> the simpler the better. I basically just need to go through the >> records and enter information. I think Apple makes software for this >> but don't know how accessible it is or what it's called. Btw, I also >> need to be able to save it so that it can be viewed on a Windows machine. >> >> Thanks, >> Tiffanitsa >> >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
