Re: statement about microsoft's accessibility on the mac
I think that message is absolutely true. Kawal. Sent from my iPhone On 5 May 2011, at 12:44 AM, Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: 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. -- 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.
RE: statement about microsoft's accessibility on the mac
It might help to mention that Apple has developed an API dedicated to accessibility for all to take advantage of and that it's up to Microsoft to learn and implement it. Tony Hernandez http://dutyofman.net/ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14) -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Campbell Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 9:35 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: statement about microsoft's accessibility on the mac Hello. The last part of you're statement is not entirely correct about Apple stepping up. Apple has provided the developer guidelines that include accessible programming designs and it is the responsibility of the developer [Microshaft] to step up and make they're products accessible. This, obviously, they have not done once again. Thanks. On 2011-05-04, at 6:09 PM, 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. -- 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.
Re: statement about microsoft's accessibility on the mac
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.
Re: statement about microsoft's accessibility on the mac
Hello. The last part of you're statement is not entirely correct about Apple stepping up. Apple has provided the developer guidelines that include accessible programming designs and it is the responsibility of the developer [Microshaft] to step up and make they're products accessible. This, obviously, they have not done once again. Thanks. On 2011-05-04, at 6:09 PM, 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.
