Agreed. I am hoping iwork will take the place of office. it will be cheaper in the long run too for councilors to perches if they decide to buy macs for the college students. Sarah Alawami MSN: marri...@gmail.com aim: marri...@gmail.com:
website: http://music.marrie.org youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com Mobile site for podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com/mobile/ On Sep 2, 2010, at 12:29 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Hiyah, I'm not sure its entirely a case of being willing to accept. I think > at least part of it is that universal access is still emerging, and we've > seen such enormous improvements in the last two or three years, that we're a > bit tacit about the workarounds. We know bigger and better things are > coming, and we've seen big enough things to make us a bit more patient in > some areas than maybe we should be. > > I like the suggestion about better access to Iwork. I think it'll come much > faster than ms office support. > > Another thing to remember is that the way the OS is being built, Applications > will one day be accessible per force. Office will either be accessible one > day, or it won't be there in the end. Meanwhile, Our bosses still expect the > proposal next friday, email updates on open case files every day, and > timesheets filled out on a regular basis. "office isn't accessible on the > mac yet", just won't cut it. > > Hope this helps, > > Erik Burggraaf > Check out my first ever podcast tutorial, Learn braille using the braille box. > Visit http://www.erik-burggraaf.com and click podcasts to read more and > subscribe. > > On 2010-09-02, at 11:03 AM, cathyk wrote: > >> Dear List, >> I've been struck by how willing we are to accept the fact that VO >> doesn't work natively with MS Word. At one level all the work-arounds >> show just how flexible, enterprising, and creative we are; every >> employer should be eager to hire anyone with such spark and, yes, >> ability. But am I the only one who fluctuates between sadness and >> outright anger that a program like MS Word, so standard in every >> single thing related to word processing, isn't accessible from the get- >> go? Every work-around means time and energy taken away from the main >> task at hand, whatever it is we're hoping to do. Each conversion on >> its own is just a few seconds here and there. But these seconds add >> up, plus they leave us open to unnecessary mistakes, which reflect >> badly on our capabilities. >> >> I know some people on this list have been trying to change this. I >> propose we band together, and really push for this to happen >> collectively. We can certainly make it more public that despite all >> the claims for accessibility, VO doesn't work with a MAJOR program. I >> frankly don't care whether the fault lies with Apple or Microsoft - >> they need to be made to play together, just as they surely have on >> other matters. As an added incentive, I know that lots more sighted >> people are warming to the idea of having long documents read to them, >> which means that this improvement would have broader benefits and >> could even be a marketing tool for Apple to tout its screen reader as >> an interesting technology for all. >> >> Please excuse this rant, but it's been building up; I just can't >> understand why we're so willing to accept the status quo when the >> thing that excited so many of us about the Mac was finally being part >> of mainstream technology. >> >> In solidarity, >> cathyk >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
