Hello, Thank you Sarah for having an earnest look at the MS Office situation for blind mac users. Since the latest release has been ported to the 64 bit coco framework, and that menus work fine with voice over, the bulk of the work wil be to make sure axaccessibility tags are added to every non accessible or custom elements in the applications. The impact of making the office suite accessible to voice over users will be tremendous in many fields, academic and professional. The extent to which MS Office is being used has been an obstacle for many blind mac users who need to find alternative solutions which aren't comparable when taking into account the time lost trying to complete seemingly simple tasks.
I wanted to add my voice of support in your endeavor and hope that you can help us achieve another step up in integrating the work force. If i can help with anything, such as bug reporting or finding inaccessible or untagged ui elements through the standard x-code tools, please do know that i will dedicate time for it, just as many others in this mailing list would. With our concerted efforts, we may push one important pro suite into full accessibility, and that sounds really nice :) Best regards, Yuma "Light has no value without darkness" Mob: +61 (0)410732547 Skype: Shainobi1 twitter: http://www.twitter.com/triple7 This message is protected by article 4-210 of a certain book of laws but you don't have to worry about privacy issues if you are the intended recipient. However, if any freakish circumstance such as ip sniffing, honey pot open relay servers or an honest mistake caused a transmission error, please advise the sender and throw your laptop into a bubble bath to avoid all illicit data retention. On 2/02/2013, at 9:22 AM, Ricardo Walker <rwalker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I honestly think that the lack of Voiceover accessibility of the MS Office > suite holds back many potential Mac users from switching over. For example, > I've spent much time talking with adaptive tech specialist, rehab and state > agencies and, most see the Mac as a entertainment console instead of a well > rounded machine that can support both ones professional and leisure computing > tasks. These agencies are all about getting visually impaired people through > college, vocational training, and ultimately employed. They look at the lack > of MS Office accessibility as a non starter for those wanting training or, > access to Macs. Many blind and visually impaired people look to these > institutions for their computer training and equipment. If the Mac could be > viewed as a more productivity driven computer, the better. > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On Feb 1, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Gabe Vega <theblindt...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks John and Sarah. I agree this access to Office is vital in my >> line of work with cooperating with clients we work with in our field. >> >> Gabe Vega >> CEO >> Commtech LLC >> Web: http://commtechusa.net >> Email: i...@commtechusa.net >> Phone: (623) 565-9357 >> >> On Feb 1, 1:02 pm, "J.P." <jshandr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Welcome Sara, >>> I am glad you made it on the list. I'm excited to see what comes of this. >>> To my fellow peers on this list, Sara and I have been communicating >>> everyday for a week. I can assure you she is interested. Just by the >>> questions she has asked. I personally wrote a note to Microsoft about the >>> lack of accessibility. sara contacted me the very next day. I appreciate >>> that when I explained about our lists, she took the initiative herself to >>> join. I contacted the moderator last night to expedite getting her here. >>> It's more genuine coming from her. Me not being the middle man. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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