Oh thanks George. I thought it was to do with the preview app on the Mac. I understand now and thanks. I think others may have been confused too.
Cheers Lisette > On 16/04/2015, at 9:34 am, george b <gbma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
