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From: Jim Homme
Date: Aug 10, 2016 11:24AM

Hi,
No matter what screen reader you use, you should, in my view, not use the web versions of the Office 365 apps, but let your installation install the desktop versions of the real applications. Furthermore, it depends on the tasks you are doing when you ask how well NVDA works with Office 365. The latest NVDA is in my view almost as good as JAWS for most Office tasks. If writing is something you need to do professionally, JAWS is best for spell and grammar check and looking at readability indexes in Word or Outlook. NVDA can't read the readability dialog in Word. If you're a writer, this is a big deal. On the flip side, if your organization uses Change Tracking, I like NVDA better.

That's just off the top of my head.

Thanks.

Jim
=========Jim Homme,
Accessibility Consultant,
Bender HighTest Accessibility Team
Bender Consulting Services, Inc.,
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