Many of us have to use Windows and Windows screen readers at work. It is not as if one can march into the bosses office and say, "We need to switch to the Mac, because Apple's philosophy concerning universal access is the way to go!" No, unfortunately, this is not the way things work. I do not find Word to be difficult to use at all, and if I did, I would be hard pressed to keep my job. Yes, I have a Mac, and I'm downloading videos with it as we speak, but you can't throw out the baby with the bath water unless you happen to be either self employed or unemployed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "carlene knight" <carlenefor...@gmail.com> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 12:33 PM Subject: Re: MS Word's lack of access with VO
Hi: I use Word at work and I can tell you that it has some bugs like trying to overlap things I need to see that I find downright annoying. I wouldn't want TextEdit to do that, nor would I want the Mac OS and windows platforms to become too intermingled or we would just be inherrriting the problems that we are trying to avoid by switching to OS10 in the first place. Just my thoughts. On Sep 2, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > I contacted MS about this on there feedback forum in 2007 but I have since > lost the link and there have been no results as far as I'm aware. I don't > use word anymore on windows or mac so I would not be able to say yes or > no that it is or is not accessible. > 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 8:03 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. -- 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.
