Hello.
Thank you CHris for pointing out the accessibility improvements in
Microsoft Word.
Although I consider the app very large at 62 megabytes, the improvements
are so wonderful that they make me want to uninstall Google Docs.
I have never succeeded in typing in Docs with my Bluetooth keyboard. even
attempting to read in Docs is very frustrating just as trying to type with
the on-screen keyboard.
I am yet to do as. much assess. Chris has with MS Word for Android, but
the little experience so far gives me hope and could well simplify my
decision to choose between OneDrive and Google Drive for my cloud
subscription.
Thank you Chris.
On 12 Jan 2017 10:06 p.m., "Christopher-Mark Gilland" <clgilland07@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I've gotta say, wow! Compared to when we had absolutely no accessibility
access to Word on Android in the past, go look at it now, if you haven't in
a while. This is freaking impressive! It seems that 99.9 things, including
the document body window itself, are totally totally readable.
I was able to create a small test document, apply some formatting, set my
linespacing and indentions/margins, create a static header and footer for
the document, and even align text.
I even made both a numbered, and a bulletted list within the file. Then,
pushed it up to my OneDrive account, turned around on my mac running
Windows 10 through Bootcamp, and was able to then pull that file from my
OneDrive, open it up in Windows in Word, and it rendered absolutely
flawlessly with all the formatting maintained etc.
This is absolutely fantastic!
I wonder when we'll get accessibility on Android to Excel, as right now,
lamentably, it's kind of a mess. For one thing, you can't flick nor can you
use touch exploration to move around the sheet within your workbook. Like,
say, you want to put something in A6, then something else in say D6, you
can't. At least not that I can see. The cell contents doesn't seem to read,
nor can I seem to get Talkback to move me around the sheet, nor announce
what coordinants I'm currently in.
This is a bit of a bummer, as I could see this being great on the fly for
things like managing a budget. With the integration Office 365 has with
OneDrive, I could start my budget at home on my mac, or my Windows 10
machine, then if I'm out somewhere, I could purchase something, then
without having to wait to get home, I could just pop open my Excel
document, file the expense, push it to the OneDrive cloud, and boom! Presto!
Now yall got me curious! I wonder if Google Sheets is accessible. Hmm! Me
wonders, me wonders!
Chris.
