[access-uk] Re: Office 2007
- From: Douglas Harrison <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:48:27 +0100
thanks Léonie, that is the impression I had reached from reading various
articles on the web. I hesitated whether to insist on Office XP, but thought
that if Microsoft are going down this route I would have to face up to it
ultimately. I wonder now whether I should have waited until I had mastered
Vista first.
I have been looking for any Tutorials or demos but have had no luck so far.
Having no useful sight now i suspect that it will be difficult to grasp the new
layout - automatically visualising menu bars and tool bars running
horizontally across the screen.
It all seems very strange that third party software developers have been
encouraged to adopt the Microsoft model and now they are dropping it
themselves Progress??.
Douglas
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On 23 Sep 2007 at 20:26, Léonie Watson wrote:
> Doug,
>
> Jaws 8 works perfectly well with Office 2007. The problem isn't one
> of accessibility, it's one of usability though.
>
> Office 2007 has changed completely. Menus go sideways instead of
> down, all the functions have moved to different places, few of the old
> shortcut keys still do the same job. In short, it's a tremendously steep
> new learning curve.
>
> The worst of it is, that there doesn't seemto be any logical
> thinking behind the change in interface. Microsoft will have you believe
> it's good usability, but there's more than a little room for doubt on that
> particular score. In time, we'll all get used to it, but there's something
> faintly irritating about having to look in the help files each time you
> want to carry out the most mundane of word processing task.
>
>
> Regards,
>
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Douglas Harrison
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