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From: John Foliot
Date: Feb 26, 2012 9:54PM


Howdy,

Last week I heard of some emergent work around JAWs scripts and QuickBooks,
although I am unsure of where that stands today. I will reach out to my
contact and see if I can find out more details. Stand by for more.

Cheers!

JF


> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto:webaim-forum-
> <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Steve Green
> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 5:41 PM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS-accessible business/bookkeeping software?
>
> I fear you are unlikely to find a suitable product. All the accounting
> packages we have used have been appallingly unusable even for fully
> able
> users. Sage are probably the worst so don't even bother going there. We
> are
> using MYOB at the moment but it's also dreadful and I would like to
> change
> if only we could find anything better.
>
> I suspect that your best bet would be a web-based application rather
> than a
> desktop application, but I have no idea if any good ones are available.
> That
> also raises the security issue of all your accounts details being held
> by
> someone else.
>
> Steve Green
> Managing Director
> Test Partners Ltd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Will Grignon
> Sent: 25 February 2012 14:47
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: [WebAIM] JAWS-accessible business/bookkeeping software?
>
> Can anyone recommend a user-friendly JAWS-accessible
> business/bookkeeping
> software product? I've tried QuickBooks and JAWS wasn't amused.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>