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



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