and microsoft are the supposed company banging accessibility to death it 
disgusting

On 12 Feb 2010, at 05:50, Philippe Brun wrote:

> Hi all,
> I read on a french Mac blog that MS rewrite Office with Cocoa. So just wait 
> and see !
> Philippe
> Le 12 févr. 2010 à 05:07, E.J. Zufelt a écrit :
> 
>> Good evening Scott,
>> 
>> My speculation is that Microsoft Office 2011 will not be accessible with 
>> VoiceOver.
>> 
>> I cannot imagine that Office was developed with native Cocoa user interface 
>> components.  As a matter of fact for some user interface components (the 
>> ribbon) Microsoft would have to create their own custom classes.  I cannot 
>> imagine that Microsoft would have put the time into ensuring that these 
>> classes were accessible.
>> 
>> I hope to be shown to be wrong.
>> 
>> HTH,
>> Everett
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>> On 2010-02-11, at 11:02 PM, Scott Ballard-RidleyScott Ridley wrote:
>> 
>>> hi all
>>> 
>>> I have just read on the mac world website that microsoft has announced
>>> the launch of office for mac 2011. Could this be the answer to our
>>> prayers by finally being accessible to voiceover users? Does anyone
>>> have the inside line on this?
>>> 
>>> Keep your fingers crossed.
>>> 
>>> Scott
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