If the Microsoft accessibility manager and team can't realign another division's products that makes that team highly useless and goes a long way toward explaining many persisting problems.On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Chris Blouch 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
