Hello Sara, Thank you for joining the list and asking for inputs about MS office. It's difficult to give detailed feedback because the text area of Microsoft Word for the Mac, where all the actual composition and user interaction takes place, cannot be accessed at all with VoiceOver. My understanding is that rewriting Word for the Mac to comply with Apple's API accessibility guidelines could be a major task. So I would also like to ask whether you could turn your attention to another item, which is helping to maximize the compatibility of Microsoft Word for visually impaired individuals doing collaborative work with users of Microsoft Word for the Mac, and who have to work on these documents in Pages or Nisus Writer Pro because Microsoft Word is not accessible with VoiceOver. I'm thinking that even knowledge of a subset of families of fonts that are robustly maintained in the documents when transferred between these apps, and do not disappear in the edited document, or formatting sequences that also show up in the revisions that are passed back and forth between these programs would be very useful.
You can also search the list archives for past discussions of these topics by going to the list's Mail Archive web page: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ The Mail Archive FAQ gives tips on the search syntax and shortcut keys for accessing and reading archived content: http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html Specifically, on Safari on a Mac with VoiceOver enabled, the shortcut keys (listed by Access key, Mnemonic, and Action) are given below. (As a sighted user you should use "Control-Option" as the access key prefix instead of "Control"; if you are using Internet Explorer on Windows substitute "Alt" for "Control" as the access key prefix -- e.g., press Alt-n to read down threads where I would press Control-n): Control-n Next Later message by thread Control-p Previous Earlier message by thread Control-f Forward Later message by date Control-b Back Earlier message by date Control-i Index Chronological index Control-c Contents Thread index HTH. Cheers, Esther -- 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.
