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Re: Microsoft Outlook and A11y

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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

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of David Ashleydale
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:50 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Microsoft Outlook and A11y

Hi,

Are there tips written down anywhere for composing emails in Microsoft
Outlook with accessibility in mind? Is it pretty much the same as using
Microsoft Word?

Thanks,
David
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