Just emailed a friend a post by the fabulous Leonie Watson on E-Access Blog.
Leonie's blind and is no fan, no way, of Microsoft Office 2007.
Hates it. Dreads it.
Office 2007 - Interface Design Revolution?
Office 2007. Revolution in usability? Innovation in interface design? Hell no, not if you're a screen reader user at least.
I installed Office 2007 at home recently. Fully ready to embrace the next evolution in interface design, I thought I'd take things easy. A little light emailing, perhaps some gentle word processing. I mean, how difficult could it be? I've been through several different versions of Office, surely a few changes to the interface can't be a problem?
Several hours later, an exhausted supply of curse words and a lifetime's supply of patience behind me, I uninstalled it. Never, I vowed, would it darken my desktop again.
From how Leonie relates the issues - auto-actions like menus 'thinking' and hence changing order - they sound so very obvious that I ended up thinking 'either they never tested Office 2007 with screen readers or they ignored the results'?
Now how does a big corp like Microsoft get away with that?
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