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March 2006 - Posts

After the work: impressions on Accessibility (in the context of Access 2007)

After I spent the last couple of weeks talking about the specifics of the accessibility work done in Access, I thought I had to relate my impressions on how the process went. It was particularly interesting to see how most people have no idea what MSAA Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 30, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 2 Comments

Access 2007 and Colors: some pretty cool stuff

"I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right" - Alan Bean Last week I spoke at length on how colors work for Access 2003 . For Access 2007, we are shaking things up. Right off the bet, we are changing the color picker control from that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 2 Comments

Office 2007: See the new UI in action

A video (" Welcome to the new Microsoft Office Interface ") is now available with the new Office Ribbon in action. Take a look at it - it's pretty cool. Nitpick: Access 2007 was not shown in it. But that's fine, we should save the best for later or it Read More...
Posted Monday, March 27, 2006 11:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Access and Colors: How Access 2003 works

There is a lot of confusion regarding the Access color properties, such as font color, control background, etc. People just don't grok the numeric values that Access uses. And that's not surprising considering how misleading it is. Perhaps one reason Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 5 Comments
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Accessibility in other revamped and new UI in Access 2007

For Access 2007, we are adding a lot of new UI (e.g. a DBC replacement, new wizards), rewriting the UI from scratch while keeping some infrastructure (e.g. SUI, Field List) or revamping it to a lesser extent (e.g. Query Designer, Relationship Window). Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 1 Comments

Accessibility and Grids in Access: Tables, Queries, Designers and much more

Perhaps the major Accessibility investment we made in Access 2007 has been implementing a highly flexible MSAA tree for grids. Most people don't realize how far and wide Access uses grids in the product. A quick way to figure that out is look out for Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 1 Comments

Post-Beta 1 Access 2007 (and Office 2007, of course)

Now that we are way past Beta 1, there has been a lot of improvements in Access 2007. But besides actual bug fixes and additions, perhaps the most visible change is the further UI polish we did since Beta 1. Here's how it looks like (click to see it full Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 09, 2006 4:30 PM by ThirdOfFive | 5 Comments

Accessibility Improvements in Forms

As I mentioned last week, forms in Access 2007 will see some accessibility improvements. At first glance, the MSAA for forms might appear to be the same as it ever was, but we've actually made a lot of improvements here. Besides making sure all new controls Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 07, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)
 
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