Justin, On 12.11.2010, at 06:46, Justin Ekis wrote:
> For several of my classes, the syllabus is provided in a word document. > Everything reads fine except for the schedule of assignments. I can open the > document in textedit, bean, or pages but voiceover doesn't correctly speak > the table with the schedule. So I was booting the virtual machine just to > check the schedule twice a week with jaws. Finally I realized a simple > solution. I let textedit save the files as web pages. Voiceover reads most of > these tables just fine in safari. > shurely That's a pretty good solution to read table structured documents that are already produced. But what about any self made ones? To edit and read such data using Microsoft word is a peace of cake. I think, today it's simply needed for the visual impaired to get any kind of information like sighted people does. Appl's accessibility aids for the visual impaired hav brought high quality reading capabilitys concerning nearly all kinds of HTML based content. So it simply makes me wonder how they could forget to work on similar capabilitys to get the same results within offline documents, particularly if those documents are produced with Works 9, the office suite that was developed by Apple. I'm from Germany, and some members of the local comunity of blind and visual impaired Mac users plans to make an inquiry to apple's accessibility department. Of course it's a well known fact taht apple have to care for lots of different reviews and feedbacc the company recieves every day from all around the world. So why they should care 'bout the needs of only a couple of blind users? But axactly that individuals often works very hard to earnt their money. And that's the reason they need reliable productivity tools, not only talking computers that reads tons of mails but not any table structured syllabus. Martin -- 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.
