Generally if an application uses standard controls they inherit most of
the accessibility so that a button will identify itself as a button and
and be operable though assistive technology. The developer would need to
provide a label to describe the button but everything else is already
hooked up. In the case of MS products they have gone the route of
custom-writing all their own widgets. This makes it easier to make
things work cross-platform but throws away all the native control
accessibility. Microsoft then re-implements all the accessibility using
the MSAA and iAccessible APIs for Windows but hasn't bothered
re-connecting the controls to the Apple accessibility APIs. In other
words, if somebody were to port iAccessible to OSX there might be a
chance the Office would be accessible, but who would do that? Apple
already has a perfectly good (and some might say better) Accessibility
API, so for now it's an impasse between two worldviews.
CB
On 11/30/13 11:43 AM, venky...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello.
The list provided on Apple's website contains just a few of the apps
that are accessible.
Most apps, though not listed on Apple's website, will be accessible
fully are partially.
This applies even to ios apps. Microsoft office for Mac is not
accessible. However, there is an alternative called I work by Apple.
It is reasonably accessible.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Sent from my iPhone
On 30-Nov-2013, at 5:48 pm, "Lee Jones" <leejones...@sky.com
<mailto:leejones...@sky.com>> wrote:
Dear List, Does Microsoft Office for Mac work with voice over? On
the apple website there is a list of applications that have been
coded for accessibility. Does this mean that applications that are
not on the list will not work. Does apple have to specifically code
applications to work with voice over? On IOS developers can make aps
accessible without them being “coded” by apple.
Many Thanks, Lee //
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