Absolutely Max, when Microsoft have accessibility out of the box then I'll say they are committed. I'd also like to see word and the I phone.
Kawal. On 4 Feb 2013, at 01:31 PM, Max <low.mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
