A few notes on MS Office for Mac OS from my perspective:
- In my experience both Word and Excel are unusable. In Word I cannot actually write and read back what I’ve written. In Excel, I can’t navigate and manipulate cells. For these reasons I do not use either programme on the Mac. Really, this is very basic and MS should be ashamed of themselves for shipping such an unaccessible product. - The fact that Word is broken on Mac has forced me to explore alternatives. I’ve leart to use both Pages and Scrivener. I am now a Scrivener fan and would probably not go back to Word even if it became accessible on Mac. I would probably never even have tried Scrivener had Word been accessible. - I am encouraged that MS is seemingly trying to take accessibility more seriously. However, good intentions only go so far. Even their own operating system is inaccessible without extremely expensive third party software like JAWS. Apple has put them to shame with Voice Over. I will only believe in change at MS once I see it. Until they start putting their code where their mouth is, I will encourage other blind people to switch to Mac. Finally, my criticism above obviously does not apply to Sarah, but rather to MS as a whole. Thank you Sarah for joining the list and taking the time to read all the comments posted here. Hopefully you can be part of a new more decent MS. -- 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.
