Not to overstate the obvious but there is a disincentive to MS to make
office accessible. As has been stated by many folks, with Office on Mac
being inaccessible people have turned to VMWare or a second machine to
run a full instance of Office AND Windows. That means Microsoft gets to
sell two licenses instead of one Office Mac license. While there is some
value to making Mac Office users happy, there is also something to be
said about the value of locking folks into Windows and sidelining the
Mac for "real work" purposes.
CB
On 2/3/13 9:03 PM, Nicholas Parsons wrote:
"The only question I have: How interested might Microsoft be to make the Mac more
attractive to blind users?"
I don't think Sara would have joined this thread if Microsoft were not
interested in making MS Office for Mac accessible.
However, I agree with you that making the Mac a viable alternative to Windows
for blind people would not seem a likely incentive for Microsoft. Hence I am a
little puzzled why so many people seem to be posting about this issue, rather
than about what in particular Sara and her team at Microsoft could do to make
Microsoft Office for Mac more accessible.
Personally, I'm already using a Mac, as I guess are most people on this list.
Making MS Office for Mac accessible would make me a loyal purchaser of MS
Office for Mac, which I am not currently. I would likely continue to still use
Windows in some capacity as I do now given work requirements and better support
for reading PDFs.
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