Hi Charles, As I said before the ribbons are fully accessible once you learn how to use them. For example, if you press the alt key screen readers should bring you to the home tab on the ribbon and using left and right arrow keys will move you left and right along it and pressing enter will select an option. To get to other tabs you can easily jump to them by using its associated hot key like alt+h for home, alt+v for view, alt+e, for edit, etc. One way of thinking of ribbons is that instead of menus that are up and down the options are arranged across the screen from left to right. So I would say that ribbons are no less accessible for a blind user than a sighted user with a mouse. However, if you are coming from an OS like XP to Windows 8, which uses ribbons in every application, then you need to learn some new hot keys and ways of doing things to use it properly. I think a lot of this belief that Windows 8 and ribbons are not accessible comes down to the fact people don't know how to use it.
Cheers! On 4/30/13, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote: > Is it equally accessible to a blind user, though? The ribbon system is a > big pain in the backside, pulldown menus weren't. What works should > remain. > > -- > If guns kill people, writing implements cause grammatical and spelling > errors! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
