No the office you have on your mac if you have 365 is version 14.xxx, the one we are talking about is office 16 which is in as you would call beta which Microsoft is now in the beta preview stage thus the name preview.
You can use preview along side office 2011 for mac, and you do not have to sign in with any account to use it. -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lisette Wesseling Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 14:06 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Office 16.9 accessbility improvements Hi, If I download MS Word for Mac using my Office 365, will I get this accessibility everybody is talking about. I'm a bit confused with it being called a preview app. Is installing Word on the mac accessible? Lisette > On 16/04/2015, at 7:05 am, Grant Hardy <grant.li...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > The Office 2016 Preview can be directly and officially downloaded from > Microsoft. Here is the link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=523849 > > As others have mentioned, once downloaded and installed, updates can be > installed by opening any of the Office apps, accessing the help menu, then > choosing “check for updates”. > > To view more information about the Preview, access this link: > https://products.office.com/en-us/mac/mac-preview > > To access the release notes for the April 14th update that includes improved > VoiceOver accessibility, access this link: > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3048768 > > I can confirm that basic VoiceOver accessibility support is now present in > Microsoft Word. Tables are recognized, though I did experience issues with > entering and leaving them as well as reading their contents. Certainly it is > not as simple as merely arrowing through a Word document, entering a table, > and using TAB and SHIFT+TAB to move through cells as Windows users might be > used to doing. The issue may well be simply that I’m not familiar with the > app. I haven’t had time to check out the new Excel or PowerPoint yet, but > Outlook has been pretty accessible for a while now. Ultimately, while there > is surely room for improvement, this is huge news. I’m excited now that as > VoiceOver users, we’ll be able to play with the preview apps and submit > feedback to Microsoft throughout the beta cycle, and such feedback will now > be more than “it doesn’t work”. :) > > Cheers! > > Grant > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
