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Re: Accessibility of Office 365 (Pros and Cons)

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From: Pratik Patel
Date: Mar 23, 2013 7:35AM

Both Sharepoint 2010 and 2013 sites could be made to be accessible but take
substantial work. In some cases, the effort may not be worth it. We have
worked with clients on Sharepoint 2010 sites. Now we're starting to work
with 2013.


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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Shan He
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 5:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessibility of Office 365 (Pros and Cons)

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
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>>> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Shan He
>>> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 11:55 AM
>>> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> >>> >>> messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>
>>>
>>> >>> >>> >>
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