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Re: Accessibility of Office 365 (Pros and Cons)

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From: Shan He
Date: Mar 22, 2013 3:44PM

Jay,

That will be great, when will it be completed?

Shan


WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> > writes:
>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
>---------------------
>Jay Wyant
>Chief Information Accessibility Officer
>MN.IT Services, Central
>State of Minnesota
>651.201.1001
>612.825.8285 (m)
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
>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?
>>
>> Shan
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>