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Re: Accessibility of Office 365 (Pros and Cons)
From: Wyant, Jay (MNIT)
Date: Mar 22, 2013 3:01PM
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We have grave concerns about SharePoint 2010 and 2013 and are currently engaged in substantiating review and discussion in order to distinguish between SharePoint as a tool and SharePoint as it is implemented. If folks are interested, I will publish our findings once complete.
Jay
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Jay Wyant
Chief Information Accessibility Officer
MN.IT Services, Central
State of Minnesota
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http://mn.gov/oet/policies-and-standards/accessibility/
On Mar 22, 2013, at 1:33 PM, Shan He < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Thanks Karen. Your input is very helpful. Did you test SharePoint and
> Lync Online?
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> Shan
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> WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> > writes:
>> 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
>>
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>> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Shan He
>> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 11:55 AM
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>> Subject: [WebAIM] Accessibility of Office 365 (Pros and Cons)
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Recently I'm doing some research on the accessibility of Office 365
>> package.
>> What I found out is that Office 365 is fairly accessible, but I would like
>> to know which part is not accessible. Do anyone on this forum know or
>> have
>> any resources such as evaluation results, comments, test results? Since
>> Office 365 is cloud-based system, I doubt it has some barriers for screen
>> reader users.
>>
>> Your information and input are greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Shan
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