Actually, the correspondence I have received from SSA as Word documents read just fine in TextEdit.
You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding Sent from my Mac Book Pro richr...@gmail.com On Feb 2, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Keith Watson <tkwatso...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sara, > > Let me just say that I am encouraged by this thread. I would dearly love to > see the Office suite become accessible on the Mac, for more than just being > able to create documents for use by most of people who I communicate with on > a daily basis. > > In 2009 the NFB won a federal suit against the SSA for noncompliance of > section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. Unfortunately the judge in his ruling > stated that the SSA is now required to provide all documentation in either an > audible format, braille format, or Word format. Great for Microsoft but not > so much for those of us who don't have access to Word. > > For the purposes of full disclosure I will say that I am aware of this > because I currently work for the company that is subcontracted to the NTIS. > We provide all the braille and word documents for SSA. I have met with the > directors of the SSA and made the case to them that Word documents are not > accessible on the Mac versions of Office, and translating them to Pages or > other formats is not always guaranteed. Their response was that they are > providing only what the judgment requires them to and no more. > > So my hopes are high that an accessible version of Office is in the works, as > I will no longer pay for an operating system that does not have a built in > screen reader that is functional. > > Regards, > > Keith Watson > 813-760-1381 > tkwatso...@gmail.com > Twitter: @TKeithWatson > > On Feb 1, 2013, at 12:59 PM, SaraFord <saraf...@microsoft.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Thank you J.P. for starting this thread and for inviting me to the group! My >> name is Sara Ford. I’m a Program Manager on the Office for Mac team. Since I >> recently joined the Office for Mac team, I asked J.P. to describe his >> experiences. Previously at Microsoft, I worked on Accessibility for Visual >> Studio, the Windows equivalent of Xcode for writing software applications, >> using JAWS and Window Eyes. Thank you for sharing your stories with me. >> >> Thanks, >> -sara >> >> -- >> 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.
