At 10:49 AM 10/10/02 , Richard Jones wrote: > > A refreshable braille display works well in reading a spreadsheet in > real-time. Ross writes: Money, money and more money. Where do I get the money. At 10:49 AM 10/10/02 , you wrote: > > A refreshable braille display works well in reading a spreadsheet in > real-time. > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Gardner > [<mailto:[log in to unmask]>mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 1:35 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Accessibility of Excel files > > I can only give my personal experience, but frankly I find Excel very > difficult to use. I can use it. In fact as far as I know there isn't > anything I've needed to do that I could not do. It is just that it takes > me all day to do something that sighted people do in seconds. For example, > when I get a spreadsheet, people invariably leave lots of blank lines and > blank cells as visual separators. I can search all day for simple > information. This isn't a problem with my screen reader except that I > really need features like hot keys to read cells in the column or row so I > can know the titles, etc. > > Forgive me for a little advertising, but printing an Excel spread sheet > with Tiger is really easy and just solves all problems of reading > information, at least by people who are good braille readers. Even though > I'm not a super braille reader, I am now using Tiger printouts for these > kinds of things in preference to the hassle of using a screen reader and > keeping track of where the devil I am. > > John > > At 02:54 PM 10/9/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >Hello EASI Colleagues, > > > >What are the practical considerations for ensuring that Excel files are > >screen reader accessible? Do certain screen readers deal better with Excel > >worksheets? Does the user need to customize Excel in certain ways? Are > >certain Excel features best avoided? > > > >Any hints would be greatly appreciated. > > > >Alan > > > >Alan Cantor > >Program Manager > >Strategic e-Government Implementation > >e-Government, OCCS > >416-212-1152 > >[log in to unmask] > > John Gardner > Professor and Director, Science Access Project > Department of Physics > Oregon State University > Corvallis, OR 97331-6507 > tel: (541) 737 3278 > FAX: (541) 737 1683 > e-mail: [log in to unmask] > URL: <http://dots.physics.orst.edu>http://dots.physics.orst.edu --- Ross Eadie Voice: (204) 339-5287