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From: Kornbrot, Diana
Date: Aug 16, 2012 1:59AM

Maybe since specialist email programs like outlook are so horrible it is better to view email through a browser?
I view my exchange account via browser whne on the road using netmail & it seems to work ok, but am not using a screen reader or enlarger.
It may be that netmail, googlemail, hotmail etc are more html5 compliant than outlook
What do others think?
Best

Diana


On 16/08/2012 00:14, "Lucy Greco" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

Thinking about outlook over all is tuff.
Outlook does show html messages visually but if I get a constant contact
message in outlook it can be hell to read it. I have to open the message in
a browser 80% of the time. So formatting for outlook is going to be a thing
you can't really do unless you are sending from outlook to outlook. The best
practice should be keep a message clean and simple and it then works in
everything. If you include a link put that link on a line by itself so it is
easy to navigate to and click with a screen reader. Links in the middle of a
line can be hard to click some times. It can be done but keep the key
boarding down. Us blind screen reader users get rsi to smile .

Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu