I did the same. What advantages does Office 2013 have for those of us
who use screen readers, anyway?
On 11/8/2013 3:26 PM, Bill Belew wrote:
I've had better luck with Office 2013 than what Richard describes and I
expect that the access will improve. The ribbon is a little overwhelming at
first, but it does provide keystroke access to many useful features. The
one biggest problem so far for me is the spell checker. It gives you a list
of suggestions and various options for change, ignore, etc., but I couldn't
find any way to read the text including the misspelled word. There may be
keystrokes I haven't found, but it looks like they really need to work on
the spell checker.
I have found Outlook 2013 to work very well, once you turn off certain
features. It is necessary to get the Outlook Enhanced app setup and
working.
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Petty, Richard [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 9:10 AM
To: Kenneth Son; Gw Info
Subject: RE: office 2013
I returned to Office 2010 after attempting to use Office 2013. Others may
have had better experiences than I and more time to work on resolving
issues.. There were a number of problems, large and small, that caused me to
go back to 2010. I found that messages in the list view would not voice
consistently when arrowing through the list, but I understand other users
did not have this problem. The autocomplete feature for addresses either
doesn't work or works differently in Outlook 2013. For me, it only completed
after using the enter key, which makes it much less useful, in my judgment.
I found it difficult to use message virtualization and had to rely on
opening Internet Explorer to view many messages. I was unable to make Excel
voice at all, but I can't imagine that it's truly unusable; there may have
been a solution I just didn't find before I removed Office 2013. All this
took place about a month ago and there may have been improvements since
then.
Word worked well enough. Just be prepared to learn new keystrokes and to
have to look in different places for common functions. All that's
aggravating, but something we'll just need to get used to as long as
Microsoft continues to change the ribbon. It's also worth noting there are
fewer advantages to upgrading than I expected. I especially needed better
PDF support, but when Word does import PDFs, it imports them, more or less,
as unformatted documents. I think Microsoft sees this as a feature, not a
fault, but there's little advantage, for me at least, if there's not some
attempt at providing a formatted document.
As far as the Outlook calendar and the Window-Eyes calendar app, they work
well in Office 2013. I did not try Access.
If you do make the transition, I hope things go well.
Richard Petty
ILRU at TIRR Memorial Hermann
(713) 797-7122
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Son [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 12:40 AM
To: Gw Info
Subject: office 2013
Hello to the list.
How usable is the office 2013 program with Window-Eyes?
For example can I use some kind of command to read the word in context
when I am spell checking?
Does spell checking even work with Window-Eyes?
Is the access program usable as well as excel?
Just how in general does Office 2013 work with Window-Eyes?
How does the calendar work in Office 2013 outlook?
These questions have to do with the desktop bersion of Office 2013 how
ever I would be interested to know how this works with other versions of
Office 2013 such as office 365 or this in the cloud program thing.
Kenneth Son.
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