Yes, it's accessible to install. Yes you'll get it with Office 3 65. By
preview we just mean it's a public preview. It's not officially been
released yet. It's just a public beta preview for now. This is why I said
it's so so important that these bugs, we report to Microsoft, and when they
do! do things that are right/good, we contact them and pat them on the back
for a job well done. That! is what will very much encourage them to keep
moving forward in the right direction. If we give up on them at this point,
they'll do the same in return.
Again, their accessibility line is:
1-800-936-5900.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisette Wesseling" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: Office 16.9 accessbility improvements
Hi,
If I download MS Word for Mac using my Office 365, will I get this
accessibility everybody is talking about. I'm a bit confused with it being
called a preview app.
Is installing Word on the mac accessible?
Lisette
On 16/04/2015, at 7:05 am, Grant Hardy <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
The Office 2016 Preview can be directly and officially downloaded from
Microsoft. Here is the link:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=523849
As others have mentioned, once downloaded and installed, updates can be
installed by opening any of the Office apps, accessing the help menu, then
choosing “check for updates”.
To view more information about the Preview, access this link:
https://products.office.com/en-us/mac/mac-preview
To access the release notes for the April 14th update that includes
improved VoiceOver accessibility, access this link:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3048768
I can confirm that basic VoiceOver accessibility support is now present in
Microsoft Word. Tables are recognized, though I did experience issues with
entering and leaving them as well as reading their contents. Certainly it
is not as simple as merely arrowing through a Word document, entering a
table, and using TAB and SHIFT+TAB to move through cells as Windows users
might be used to doing. The issue may well be simply that I’m not familiar
with the app. I haven’t had time to check out the new Excel or PowerPoint
yet, but Outlook has been pretty accessible for a while now. Ultimately,
while there is surely room for improvement, this is huge news. I’m excited
now that as VoiceOver users, we’ll be able to play with the preview apps
and submit feedback to Microsoft throughout the beta cycle, and such
feedback will now be more than “it doesn’t work”. :)
Cheers!
Grant
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