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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Apr 25, 2014 3:46AM

The thing to keep in perspective is that until Leopard there was no screen
reader for the Mac. So for Microsoft, Adobe and many others, there was no
implementation of accessibility or any way to predict how or if
accessibility would be implemented on a Mac.

Microsoft is trying to catch up as are other developers but it is going to
take time to "bend" old code to the hooks for accessibility. Not sure where
Adobe is on the scale of implementing a more accessible viewer so we have
more granular access.

I too, am inpatient for access on all my devices so that accessing content
is seamless and painless and doesn't require app specific tools like
built-in AT. I want to be able to use the tools I know to access any type of
content.

Having said that, I am now a Microsoft Accessibility MVP (as of April 23
this is a new category of MVP). I am still an MVP for Word and have been for
5 years. There are 70 of us Accessibility MVP's representing almost all
Microsoft products.

I know it's been a while on this list since I mentioned this, but if you
have accessibility issues or feature requests, let me know.

So, at any time, send me issues or feature requests and I'll pass them
along.

Cheers, Karen