RE: Article: Microsoft Improves Word for the Blind
- From: <Nick.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 09:17:51 +0100
Hi Matthew.
I don't think that's the case at all. I don't believe there's a word
processer that works directly in dazie. To create documents your still
going to have to use something like Word. I also think that
accessibility generally seems to be being a bigger thing at Microsoft
than it's been in the past so I don't think MS will use this as any sort
of excuse, if anything it's going to be used as a marketing tool, "Hay
look, word can do this!".
I think this is a good thing, and MS should be commended for working
with the dazie format.
Cheers.
Nick.
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew2007
Sent: 09 May 2008 20:13
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Article: Microsoft Improves Word for the Blind
Hi all,
Is it possible this new MS Word tool could backfire and actually set us
back? That is, Microsoft can now go ahead and develop MS office software
in
the future without regard to blindness issues, and if we complain that
they
are not giving us accessibility, they can simply state: "why should we
bother spending all the time and financial resources on developing word
when
there already exists a tool to take word documents and turn them into
daisy?
After all, isn't this the standard for accessibility of text documents
the
blind community has been demanding and crowing about?"
Just a thought.
Matthew
----- Original Message -----
From: "inthaneelf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Article: Microsoft Improves Word for the Blind
> sounds interesting, thanks for the links, smile
>
> inthane
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> From: "Jennifer Sutton" <jsuttondc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 9:55 AM
> Subject: Re: Article: Microsoft Improves Word for the Blind
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>
>> Dear Jared:
>>
>> Thank you for posting this article reference to the Blindprogramming
>> list.
>>
>> For those who are interested, pasted below my name additional details
>> that have been circulating. there are also some news items related
to
>> this on the front page of the DAISY Web site at :
>> www.daisy.org.
>>
>> Jennifer
>>
>> Today the first official release of Microsoft's "Save As
>> DAISY XML" translator for Word and the simultaneous release of the
>> newest
>> version of the DAISY Pipeline were announced. Full details and links
to
>> downloads, press release and related information, and support
>> documentation
>> for the Microsoft "Save As DAISY XML" add-in are available from the
DAISY
>> Web site:
>>
>> http://www.daisy.org
>>
>> The direct link to the Microsoft Save as DAISY area is in the
>> Projects area of the DAISY Web site at:
>>
>> http://www.daisy.org/projects/save-as-daisy-microsoft/
>>
>> Information, links to the DAISY Pipeline press
>> release, and downloads for the Pipeline are on the DAISY Pipeline
>> project
>> area at:
>>
>> http://www.daisy.org/projects/pipeline/
>>
>> Press releases for Microsoft's "Save As DAISY XML" translator are
>> also provided in DAISY 2.02 format. This DAISY DTB with synthetic
speech
>> was created using the "Save As DAISY XML" translator and the DAISY
>> Pipeline. It is also available for download from the
>> Microsoft Save as DAISY XML project area referenced above.
>>
>> At 07:34 PM 5/8/2008, you wrote:
>>>More or less, an open source implementation of save as daisy. Thought
a
>>>few of you might be interested.
>>>http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20080507/tc_zd/227283
>>>
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