Hi there, In my case, Open Office lost quite a bit of accessibility with VoiceOver in Lion. Moving with the arrow keys inside a text document without using VO cursor won't work, making it very unpractical to read long pieces of documents. Pages is kind of alright. I used it until recently to work on letters, contracts, term sheets and stuff… Anything beyond traditional text and basic formatting was hard to access with VO. I am now experimenting Nisus Writer Pro. Although listed by Apple as being an accessible software, the one feature of accessibility I was looking for is not there yet. I am referring to the accessibility of tables, which in both Pages and Nisus Writer Pro, are not accessible. I did not try Writer in Open Office.
Good luck, E On Dec 31, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Mr. L. Alexander wrote: > you are correct that MS Office for mac is not accessible. > > there are some decent alternatives, although they all have some accessibility > flaws we all get a bit fed up with. > > what's available? > > Nisus writer pro. worth checking out if you're in need of a word processor. > Iwork 09. a decent office suite containing pages, numbers and keynote. a > pretty reliable package I find, though there are some issues with navigation > now and again as well as certain known voiceover omissions. > OPEN OFFICE 3.3 is a reasonable office kit. fairly accessible but has a few > bugs to it, if you want to become a member of the developer team and give > accessibility feedback, etc it's worth the time. > there's probably a few others there which I've no doubt missed. > > lew > > On 30 Dec 2011, at 23:15, Shanna Stichler wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I find myself in need of software similar to MS Office, which I am quite >> familiar with in Windows. However, I understand the Mac version is not >> accessible. Is that correct? If it is, what alternatives can you all >> recommend? I'd like to know for sure that what I purchase will actually work >> for me. Thanks so much for any advice. >> >> Shanna >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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. >> > > Mr. L. Alexander. > Free Macs For The Blind. > E-Mail: freemacsfortheb...@mac-access.net > Direct line: 07936 877500 > Twitter: @macsfortheblind > > Free Macs For The blind is a charity project supplying older but working > apple macs for blind and visually impaired people throughout the UK FOR FREE! > > Do you have an old unwanted mac, any hardware, software, old PC's, etc or a > copy of outspoken 9.2 you would be willing to donate? please get in touch. > > Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, we're here to help > anybody disabled with anything Apple! > http://www.mac-access.net > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.
