Of course this is my own opinion. But I think that hurdle is real high on making voice over as accessible with office, as Jaws or window eyes. The way that jaws interacts with spread sheets, is way beyond what voice over can do with numbers. But I wish you luck. I am a small business owner myself, and run windows on my mac as a virtual machine, just so I can make my book keeping a breeze, if office was accessible with the mac, mainly word and excel for me, that would be the deal breaker. I would stop using windows altogether. As for outlook, I still think it is the best mail client on the PC side, but to me apple mail rules! Of course it would be nice for my calendar and contacts to be at my finger tips in apple mail like it is in outlook, but it doesn't bother me to have to open another application to get to them. The interface of apple mail is so clean and smooth, it's almost unheard of. I know there is a way to get to my contact while in mail, but haven't really sweated it because I rarely look at them from mail anyway. But good luck, and I hope you and your staff are able to accomplish this. Kliphton Senior (Email&iMessage) kliph...@gmail.com (Twitter&Skype) kliphton72 (Personal blog-read at your own risk!) http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com (Life Journal) kliphton.wordpress.com http://facebook.com/kliphandsharrie
On Feb 1, 2013, at 5:22 PM, Ricardo Walker <rwalker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I honestly think that the lack of Voiceover accessibility of the MS Office > suite holds back many potential Mac users from switching over. For example, > I've spent much time talking with adaptive tech specialist, rehab and state > agencies and, most see the Mac as a entertainment console instead of a well > rounded machine that can support both ones professional and leisure computing > tasks. These agencies are all about getting visually impaired people through > college, vocational training, and ultimately employed. They look at the lack > of MS Office accessibility as a non starter for those wanting training or, > access to Macs. Many blind and visually impaired people look to these > institutions for their computer training and equipment. If the Mac could be > viewed as a more productivity driven computer, the better. > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On Feb 1, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Gabe Vega <theblindt...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks John and Sarah. I agree this access to Office is vital in my >> line of work with cooperating with clients we work with in our field. >> >> Gabe Vega >> CEO >> Commtech LLC >> Web: http://commtechusa.net >> Email: i...@commtechusa.net >> Phone: (623) 565-9357 >> >> On Feb 1, 1:02 pm, "J.P." <jshandr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Welcome Sara, >>> I am glad you made it on the list. I'm excited to see what comes of this. >>> To my fellow peers on this list, Sara and I have been communicating >>> everyday for a week. I can assure you she is interested. Just by the >>> questions she has asked. I personally wrote a note to Microsoft about the >>> lack of accessibility. sara contacted me the very next day. I appreciate >>> that when I explained about our lists, she took the initiative herself to >>> join. I contacted the moderator last night to expedite getting her here. >>> It's more genuine coming from her. Me not being the middle man. >> >> -- >> 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?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > 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?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
