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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jun 22, 2018 11:43AM

Quite accessible with a screen reader, Jaws in particular.
YOu can browse spreadsheets by cels, review formulas and comments with
keystrokes, assign header cells (Jaws only), name and move worksheets
around (I think Jaws only, but not sure), you can get a list of
objects (at least in Jaws) that enable you to e.g. click buttons to
run scripts (I used to work full-time writing VBA scripts for massive
risk monitoring applications for a bank, the fact that the bank went
under is not my fault, I promise).

There are some difficulties navigating custom dropdowns in Excel (have
not tested with latest version, both in Jaws and NVDA.
I've not been able to create or use pivot tables.

Hope this helps, if you just want a number I'd say 85% with Jaws, 75% with NVDA.



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> The recent thread about Sec. 508 regarding Excel prompted this question:
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> How accessible are spreadsheets with current assistive technologies?
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> I'm sure the answer will be "it depends," but let's take 2 basic samples:
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> 1. A spreadsheet of just plain data, such as a directory with names,
> addresses and emails in rows and columns.
> 2. A spreadsheet with common, basic formulas, such as summation of a
> column of numbers.
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