I'm sure you're right about forms, the forms I personally had to read were on the web.
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 3, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Keith Watson <tkwatso...@gmail.com> wrote: > It depends on the form that you get. Some of the forms have complex tables > and elements that text edit don't handle very well. Sure you can get the gist > of the letter but there are elements that are add to the docs in order for > them to be 508 compliant per SSA requirements. And text edit does not read > those changes. Believe me I have tested and read hundreds of thousands of > documents over the past 3 years. > > Keith > > On Feb 2, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Richard Ring <richr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. 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