Hi Jonathan,

Firstly, I completely agree that announcing text attributes (e.g. at your 
cursor location) is really a screen reader feature rather than something 
developers should be implementing on an application basis. Therefore, I don’t 
fault Microsoft Word at all for having this limitation, since every other text 
editor on iOS would have the same limitation.

I do however have a somewhat related question. You described the accessibility 
of the new Office as being outstanding. Are you having better luck with it than 
I am? In Word, I cannot edit tables or do anything beyond basic text editing. 
Editing tables with VO certainly should be doable, because you can do it in 
Excel as well as in Pages and Numbers for iOS. Secondly, it is clear that 
PowerPoint has in-built accessibility features both when presenting and editing 
presentations; however, on an iPhone 5S running iOS 8.1 attempting to use 
PowerPoint with VO causes PowerPoint to crash too often to really be usable. 
Are you experiencing more desirable behaviour? As I noted in a prior message, 
I’ve had the best luck with Excel, which seems to work really well with VO.

Grant

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