FW: inquiry into OmniPlan app accessibility

Hello all, 
I posted to the list about a potentially accessible Project Planning
software and mentioned that I had sent an inquiry to the company that I
would share with the list when I received a reply. 
Well, below see their reply. Unfortunately, their apps are not cross
platform. I was able to access the info and add input because the
student was running it from his Mac on a Gmail workgroup site. 

I guess I was a little to hasty in posting the info, which is a little
embarrassing for me. I was so excited about finding a potential
screen-reader accessible solution that I posted before receiving an
answer from the company. 

I apologize if this has cause any inconvenience to anyone on this list. 

Thank you,

Terri


Terri Hedgpeth


From: OmniPlan Support [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 5:20 PM
To: Terri Hedgpeth
Subject: [OG #255672] interested in purchasing OmniPlan 

Hi Terri,

Thanks for contacting us!

All of our applications are designed for Mac OS X and we don't do any
PC/Windows development, so you would need to run OmniPlan on a Mac.

I'm not sure if I fully understand your question but I'll try to answer
it as best as I can. If I've misunderstood the question at all, please
do let me know. The graphical timelines actually do have a text
component that provides access to the same info (start and end dates for
the tasks, effort, duration etc...), it's the task outline that's on the
left hand side of the graphical timelines. 

Besides the graphical timelines, The rest of the application does have a
text component to the graphical elements. Our calendar view where you
set the normal working hours for each resource is pretty graphics heavy
because it's designed so that the user sets up the working times of each
resource by dragging green work periods over a grid that has the days at
the top and hours along the left. Even here, we made it so that you can
type in the days and times to set the work period if you choose to.

Hope this info was helpful. If you have any other questions about
OmniPlan, please let us know. We really appreciate it!

Sincerely,

Aaron Kwong
Support Ninja
The Omni Group

> ["Terri Hedgpeth" - Fri Jan 11 09:36:14 2008]:
> 
> Hello,
> I am blind and use a screen-reading software called JAWS. I am a
> researcher and and a student was using your software for a semester
> project I was supervising. I noticed that your software seems to be
> quite accessible. Does it run fine on a PC? Other than the graphical
> timelines, are there other graphical elements that don't have a text,
> html, or xml component that provides access to the same info? I really
> was impressed with the software with the limited time I used it. 
>  
> Can you please get back to me with answers to these questions I have
> posed? I have another project that has 5 students working on it, and
> would like to purchase this software for the project management.
>  
> Looking forward to your reply,
> Terri
>  
>  
> 
> Dr. Terri Hedgpeth
> 
> Academic Research Professional
> 
> CUbiC #376, iCare
> 
> (480) 727-8133 V
> 
> (480) 965-1885 Fax
> 
> CUbiC.asu.edu
> 
> http://www.fulton.asu.edu/fulton/
> 
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