[Dtb-talk] [vip-l] Re: MSWord Excel for MacOS finally is accessible

[Greg Kearney]

Make sure you run all the updates as well. 

Sent from my iPhone

Greg Kearney

> On Apr 15, 2015, at 5:32 PM, sadamahmed1992 at gmail.com wrote:
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> You can download the preview here: 
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> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=523849 
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> Kind regards, 
> 
> Sadam Mohammed Ahmed 
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> Sent from my iPhone 
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>> On 16 Apr 2015, at 8:28 am, "brendoncdonohue at icloud.com" <brendoncdonohue at icloud.com> wrote:
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>> Hi! This is fantastic news! When can we download it?
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>> Warm Regards, Brendon Donohue
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>> On 16 Apr 2015, at 3:49 am, sadamahmed1992 at gmail.com wrote:
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>> Hello Greg, 
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>> Thanks for passing this on. 
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>> It's a great achievement by Microsoft Corporation. 
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>> Hopefully this carries through to the final release in the second half of 2015. 
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>> 
>> Kind regards, 
>> 
>> Sadam Mohammed Ahmed 
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>> Sent from my iPhone 
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>>> On 16 Apr 2015, at 3:31 am, Greg Kearney <gkearney at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> After many years Microsoft Word and Excel for MacOS is now accessible with VoiceOver. I know I have been complaining to Microsoft about this for years.
>>> 
>>> As of version 15.9.0 of the preview edition of Microsoft Office seem to work with VoiceOver with the ability to read and interact with the content area of the documents. This was where these two programs always failed in the past.
>>> 
>>> This is important because in many vocational rehabilitation setting MacOS would not be considered due to the lack of support for these two application with VoiceOver. That issue would now finally seem to have been addressed. One now wonders what new excuse VocRehab and similar agencies will be able to offer up.
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