Although Microsoft has not shown any interest in accessibility for their office suite on the Mac, I would be very surprised if they made any significant changes and to include actively ditching accessibility for Mac users. Now if they did, I think they would face a substantial backlash. Of course one hopes that Microsoft would not be that foolish.
On May 10, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Jes Smith wrote: > Mark, > I base this assumption upon past history of dealing with Microsoft for Mac > products. > When I purchased this MacBook, I, not knowing any better, also purchased > Microsoft Office for Mac. The install button looked like it was there to > VoiceOVer, and you could press on it and it would say install, dimmed. > However, there was a little icon that you had to click on with your mouse, > which was the actual install button. This is where I base my assumption. Once > someone sighted clicked on the install icon, and got MS Office installed, > the program crashed whenever I pressed command-O to open up any of the tools > in the suite. Totally useless, and inaccessible. > > > On May 10, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > >> Upon what, other than past history, of course, are you basing that >> assumption? I assume users of that other evil system won't have as many >> problems with it, but you're afraid that VO won't be figured into any >> accessibility upgrades MS does now? >> >> >> • Mark BurningHawk Baxter >> • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 >> • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com >> • My home page: >> • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ >> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
