All true and very valid points. I think we all need to contact Eric Wilfred who is the General Manager of the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft. He has been part of the unit since Office 98. He was responsible for PowerPoint and recently over seeing Office 2011. I don't know a direct way of contacting him, but here is a option. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/eric-wilfrid/4/81a/a19
On 4 May 2011, at 23:09, Priscilla Garces wrote: > > I did give some feedback on Microsoft's inaccessibility since I have tested > the Microsoft products on the mac. I bought the mac and before i did they let > me test the mac with Microsoft word and it was very inaccessible > I wrote the following statement: > > "To Who May concern, > "I am very interested in purchasing your Office Suite for > The Macintosh platform. However, i understand your product is not > accessible as it is not compatible with VoiceOver which is the built in > Screen reader for the blind for OS X. I tried to use word as a test at the > apple store when I bought the mac and had to buy iworks2009 in order to > substitute Microsoft, but although the apple version is enough for my needs, > Microsoft Office suite is necessary for the work environment being that most > employers are offering Microsoft's products as part of the equipment for > employees. If you were to add support for > VoiceOver, this would result in thousands of Sales and more profits will be > gained. In addition, many people in the blind community who are already mac > users will also have the choice of either operating system. It is imperative > that Microsoft products become accessible on the mac platform. For this > reason, apple should step up and get Microsoft to consider the large gain in > profitability towards accessible features in the mac platform." > > What do all of you think? > Any opinions are appreciated. > Thanks. > > > > Priscilla Garces > priscillagarces1...@hotmail.com > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
