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Re: Accessibility of Office 365 (Pros and Cons)

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Mar 22, 2013 11:01AM

I'm doing some work with this and found that if you choose the "blind low
vision experience" in the Outlook Web App most of the tools you need are
removed. Many of the labels are missing from edit fields or icons, the Tab
Order of how you fill in an e-mail to send is out of order, and some of the
tools don't work as they should whether you are using adaptive technology or
not. This is true with or without the blind low vision experienced checked.

My recommendation is to avoid using the "blind low vision experience with
the Outlook Web App as it makes the tool almost unusable.

Most of my experience has been with the Outlook Web App so far and I have
found the Office Web Apps to be more accessible than the outlook one but
there are some pieces of granular information like knowing what page you are
on in a Word document, that you don't have access to yet.

Cheers, Karen