Microsoft Word With Voiceover

As a student, I use Pages to create documents, and am able to adjust the font, spacing, paragraph style, text alinement, and bookmarks. These are the features I use. I know there are others, but I can't say if they are or aren't accessible with Voiceover. I've tried Word, and while it appears to be usable for basic tasks, it seems less intuitive and consistent from an accessibility perspective.

HTH

Hello,

I have iwork and so far it’s been accessable for the basic things I needed to do.

Anyway, here is the purpose of my post. If you want the latest version of pages, numbers and keynote cheaply and legally, here is how you can do it.

Purchase iwork 09 on a DVD. Install from the DVD then update to the latest update for iWork 9. Then when you restart your Mac, and check for updates from the app store, it will update to the latest version of numbers, pages and keynote. Be sure to keep the DVD in a safe place as this is your proof of purchase/license of the iwork software. BTW, I am in the US but I am not sure if this is the same outside of the US.

HTH and good lluck.

Hello,
As far as I've used Pages on iOS, it is fully accessible and it has most of the features Microsoft Word has. I'm not sure whether it has more or less features than Microsoft Word, but it does have all the features that one needs in daily basis. I was able to write a short document with the Braille keyboard and I could apply formatting, font, (size and type like Times new Roman), bold, underline, italics, alignment, indentation, and so on. One thing I could not easily do though; adding headings as I usually do on Microsoft Word on Windows.
However, I can say that Pages is a really nice word processor and I'm now more confident to switch to MAC whenever I have the money to buy one.

Hi. I use Microsof Word, and I've found it very accessible. I however, do not have Office 365, if that's what you're asking about for advanced features. So, I cannot speak for Office 365 accessibility. I love Word and have used it for creating lists a few times, crating other documents, and storing documents. I used Word on a computer before when I was in school, and it was a little... for lack of a better phraise culture shock because I was used to the way it worked on a computer somewhat. But I honestly think you should go with Word because it's very accessible. That, and it's free. I'll also make another suggestion. How I meised around and played with it to figured out how to use it, was I created a folder called test docs )you don't have to call it that obviously, you can call it whatever you want), and just created a document or 2, so I could be free to figure it out, without screwing up anything important! Good luck and hope this helps!

So I'm still finding Word is not reading all the formatting that I want it to. And to use all the features like syncing all formats of documents You do need to purchase an office 365 subscription. But pages just doesn't seem to be doing it either, not as many sinking options. I need to have some form of continuity between my iPad and my windows computer.

Guys, who is the best person to find out about MS office accessibility? there seems to be some wildly conflicting reports about it. some people say they've used MS Excel, some say it's accessible. Others say Word is, others say it's not. I think the problem is not enough blind people use Office to really know about it but surely someone, somewhere must know? surely someone has to use it on a daily basis?

From the posts above it seems like Word can be used successfully with VoiceOver on a Mac.

I find lots of trouble using Word in iOS with VoiceOver in either iOS 12 or 13. Specifically:

- When hitting Shift+Option+Right/LeftArrow VoiceOver does not speak the selected words as they are selected like in other apps and edit field.
- If I close a document and open another blank template, I can't find any editable field using VoicedOver.

So, I'm wondering if anyone else has had any success using Word with VoiceOver on iOS and if so, what do you do to get it to work?

thanks.

--Pete

Hi.

As Windows users of ofice will know you have hotkeys for certain things, for example setting up headings.

Do these hotkeys also exist for the iOS and mac versions or do you have to scrape around menus to set up headings or edit headers or footers?

Greetings Moritz.

So, just to add to this conversation... I have to use word to submit work. My process is this, use byword, a markdown editor, and then export to a .Doc file. The problem is, if you open a .doc file in pages it changes the formatting.

I'm using Mac OS here, I've not tried the IOS version as it's not really a versatile editor in terms of spell check and so on.

I do believe that there are hot keys, re the previous poster, but getting in and out of the editable area is a real pain.

So, I'd say, I grudgingly use it and that is on a 360 subscription.

I have noticed some very strange accessibility issues with the microsoft office 2016. For whatever reason, the application used to put me where the text should go and work pretty much perfectly. However, the scroll area the text was in is apparently empty and I cannot interact with it at all. In addition, I can no-longer tell what is happening with the text. I don't know how it happened, but out of nowhere, voiceover no-longer reads the text status. If I type, nothing is said. If I move the cursor or select text, again nothing happens. I would use pages any day over this, but I am in classes in which formatting is essential. If anyone has seen this or knows of any fixes, that would be appreciated.