Hi there, One other thing enters the accessibility equation. Carbon, or legacy Apple controls, are not accessible either. This is why the rewrite of the entire Mac OS X and applications in Cocoa is so great. It uses the modern controls and development framework.
...b On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
