no, braille output goes hand in hand with screen reader availability. This is in favor of vo because with narrator, there is no braille support. If you mean can we emboss, the answer is yes and easily and free. The windows screen readers may support a wider array of displays, but Their list is shortening and apples will get longer.
----- Original Message ----- From: "pat lockwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 12:00 AM Subject: Re: Bad news about Microsoft Office But is the real issue screen reader availability versus braille output? On 1/17/08 4:26 AM, "Greg Kearney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Microsoft this morning Microsoft Office 08 is not > accessible to the blind or print disabled using VoiceOver. So don't > bother going out and buying it. I will now editorialize: > > At some point someone is going to start raising the issue of consumer > products, in this case Microsoft Office, not being accessible and if > producing such products is actionable under the Americans with > Disabilities Act. That aside what in the world is Microsoft thinking? > This was a product that was delayed because the code was changed to > Xcode and here we have a major productivity application that is not > accessible? Microsoft should be ashamed of itself and I for one would > like to have someone from Microsoft offer some kind of explanation for > this oversight. > > It is one thing for some small company with limited resources to not > have an accessible application it is inexcusable for a company the > size of Microsoft to re-write a major application like office and not > have it be accessible. If Xcode would not compile non-accessible > application we might have avoided this. It is interesting to note that > the only accessible spreadsheet for the Mac, Tables, is the work of a > lone programer who managed to do it with out the resources of a > Microsoft or Apple. > > On a related note developer at Sun have been asking questions about > accessibility on a developer list at Apple so perhaps there is hope > that Sun will be developing an accessible version of Open Office. > Let's hope so anyway. And let's hope that someone at Apple is able to > get and explanation from Microsoft as to why an application written > after VoiceOver's release is not able to be used by the blind and > print disabled. And Apple your not off the hook here either Pages and > Numbers are not accessible either I might add. > > Greg Kearney > 535 S. Jackson St. > Casper, Wyoming 82601 > 307-224-4022 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
