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From: England, Kristina
Date: Jan 13, 2017 12:35PM

Thanks, Poornima! Those shortcuts will be helpful.

And sorry, JP, for not including the version of Outlook on the original email - we are on Outlook 2016.

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Subject: RE: [WebAIM] Navigating Microsoft Outlook with Assistive Technology

You could please find the Keyboard Shortcuts for Outlook in the below link,

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Keyboard-shortcuts-for-Outlook-3cdeb221-7ae5-4c1d-8c1d-9e63216c1efd#bkmk_basicnav&ID0EAABAAA 16,_2013

The keyboard shortcuts listed in this link works well with both screen reader ON or OFF.

For sighted keyboard users, the basic navigation for "switching between the views like mail view, calendar view, tasks view, contacts, etc." are the easy references. Once the user lands in any view, the standards keys (Tab, Arrow) works to get through related menus and sub-menus. There is an important key ALT+H that shows all the shortcuts for each of the options in the entire menu bar.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,
Poornima.

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From: England, Kristina [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 1:48 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] Navigating Microsoft Outlook with Assistive Technology

Hi everyone,

I know this one isn't web related, but I was wondering if anyone has documented steps on navigating Microsoft Outlook with a screen reader? We are building Microsoft Outlook training on organizing mailboxes and wanted to provide keyboarding steps.

Thanks!

Kristina