[macvoiceover] Re: Fwd: Microsoft office 2008 for macintosh. please read this
- From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:32:40 -0500
Microsoft has been shamming the assistive technology community for years and
throwing money around like it's watter to underline their point but at the
end of the day, how much of microsoft is really accessible and how much of
it is accessible because the little guys sweatted bullets and hacked into
software and operating systems to make it happen.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hess" <johnythehess@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:21 PM
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Fwd: Microsoft office 2008 for macintosh. please
read this
Cheryl, you raise some very valid points and I don't have an answer
for that. Perhaps in our minds it's too late but in my opinion any
opportunity we have to share our concerns is a valid one. If anyone
knows about the need for accessibility it is certainly Microsoft.
They have made changes in windows apps to accommodate this need. the
name "Microsoft accessibility" says it all doesn't it?
On Jan 22, 2008, at 7:49 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> I'm sorry but this doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Is Microsoft
> trying to say they are in the dark about what the problems are and
> need us to tell them about it? The developers were certainly able to
> turn on voiceover and see what the issues were. Had they asked us
> for this feedback before 08 was released I could see it but why now
> when the cow is already out of the barn so to speak? I could also
> understand it had it not ben reported on this list that office 08
> was expected to be accessible. Likde David, I'm not shooting the
> messenger and i hope this isn't a sham but I have to say I have
> definite doubts.
>
John W. Hess & Barclay the WonderLab
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