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 <grant.li...@icloud.com> 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 > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
