Is there any accessible app where one can accessibly view and edit Microsoft Word documents on the iPhone? Would Voice Dream Writer do this?
I currently use OneDrive to store my MS Word documents and would like to be able to make changes on my phone as well as on my PC.
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Microsoft Word for iOS and Pages are your main options.
Apple's Pages and Microsoft Word both have iOS versions. I'm not familiar with the quality of their VoiceOver support though. OneDrive is also available on iOS, and it was accessible when I last used it.
Try Google Docs
After 11 years of having an iPhone, I have still not found a wholely reliable way to navigate and edit text. Unfortunate, since that was one of the things I was excited about when I first got one. Voice Dream Writer, for all its amazing features can still not import .docx files. So far the best option I have found is Google Docks. Assuming you use headings to divide your documents into sections, you can easily navigate from heading to heading. If you double tap on the part of the document you want to start editing from, it will actually start editing from there, unlike the last versions of Word and Pages which will jump you to a completely separate area. I did try Scrivner for IOS, and it too was pretty decent, though a bit awkward when you import an existing document into it. Hope that helps. Google Docs is free at least so you can try it out and see how you like it. It's nice because you can easily move to editing on your Mac or PC too, even if you'd prefer to download said document and open it in Word.
My experience
Hi, I wouldn't say that MS office products are accessible while editing documents, if you need to do a serious editing task.
my experience with Word or Office apps is that Voice Over doesn't read what you are selecting, if you do it word by word, nothing is spoken, and when you do it like a whole paragraph, only the first line is read out loud. Also when you select text and for example need to center the text, if you do it by the keyboard shortcut, you will not get voice over response (not as it occurres with JAWS on windows), so it is a mess to know if you performed the right action or not.
I would suggest google docs as it functions with voice over while selecting text, but the don't of this app is that when you save the document it is saved in the google docs extention and you then need to make a copy in office extention so it is a double task.
These also happens with macOS, that is why I couldn't change from windows to it.