RE: the accessibility of office 2003 with jaws 5.00.844?
- From: Anna K Byrne <annakb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 07:12:06 -0500
Yes, Windows XP Pro requires a different version of JFW. And the only
significant difference between the two is that the pro version gives better
networking support, so it's geared more to corporate situations.
At 06:33 AM 5/28/2004, you wrote:
>It works fairly well, but from what I understand Freedom Scientific has not
>yet ensured that Office 2003 is accessible. I have not had any major
>problems with it, but here's one example of something that didn't work well.
>I know how to create mailing labels in Word using an Excel database, but I
>was unable to do it with Office 2003, because they've created a new and
>improved module for mailing labels; unfortunately it doesn't seem to be very
>speech friendly.
>That was the only significant problem I found. By the way, I'm using
>Windows XP Home edition, not Professional. Not sure if that makes a
>difference. I was going to upgrade to Professional, but I think it requires
>a more expensive version of JAWS. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong on that.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of Shai Wolman
>Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:25 PM
>To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: the accessibility of office 2003 with jaws 5.00.844?
>
>Hi I would like to know how well does the new version of office (office
>2003) work with jaws 5.00.844 on a windows xp professional machine in
>regards to accessibility?
>I would imagine that it would work just the same, but I'm just curious,
>since the college will also be converting to that as well in the summer
>before I get there and if there are any concerns about it, I would like to
>perhaps let the people there know so that they don't upgrade to it and then
>later on we find that it is inaccessible (by the way accessibility wise) I
>mean word in regards to the spell checker and things of that sort) I also
>believe that I also mean access and excel also.
>Any help with this would be appreciated.
>Thank you
>
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