[Blindtlk] PLEASE HELP!!!! Needing to Change Accessibility Settings in MS 365 for Email and Having Serious Difficulty Doing so with JAWS 16

[Steve Jacobson]

Christine,

I don't have any easy answers for you but there are things you should check
out.  First, the Office 365 site is, in my opinion, not easy to use, I
agree.  However, some of the issue is that newer kinds of controls are used
and you may have better luck in some cases turning the virtual cursor off by
pressing INSERT Z.  Then you would move between controls with the TAB key
and check controls with the arrow keys.  Some lists and such will act more
like other software than web pages.  If I remember, for example, when you
are looking at your in-box, you can arrow through the list and pressing the
"DEL" key deletes messages similar to what happens in Outlook.  It could be
that if you experiment that you may figure out enough to do what you have to
do.

However, if that doesn't work, it is possible that you can access your work
Office 365 mail using Outlook at home.  I understand that you don't want to
mix up your mail at home with work mail, but it is pretty easy to set up a
new Outlook profile that would keep your work email completely separate.
When you start Outlook, you will then be asked which profile you want to
use.  To make this work, though, you probably are best off having at least
Outlook 2010 at home.  If you don't, there are ways to do this with Outlook
2007, but it involves extra steps.  

If you have an older version of Office, older than 2010, and you want to
upgrade, your work license may allow you to install the Office 2013 software
at home through your work license.  Where I work, our Office 365 license
allows me to install it on up to five machines.  This can vary with the
license, though, and it may also depend upon whether you can access your
Outlook server from home.  My understanding is that usually you can because
Outlook servers are most likely maintained by Microsoft for your employer
rather than being maintained by your employer directly.  Therefore they are
probably not behind your employer's firewall.  It is possible that a Virtual
Private Network (VPN) connection is required, though, which involves
additional software, but your employer could tell you if that is the case.

To figure what of all this would work best for you, you may need to talk to
your Information Technology people at work.  If necessary, I can be more
specific about what I had to do, but it is likely you are not the only one
who would like to access their mail on other than the website, if, indeed
you want to go that route.

Finally, JAWS 17 has the ability to connect settings with specific web
pages.  This opens up the potential for scripts that handle specific
websites, and it would stand to reason that there could be scripts available
for the Office 365 site at some point that might make it easier.  JAWS is
not my primary screen reader, though, so this is speculation on my part.
Others here may have better information on this.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

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Subject: [Blindtlk] PLEASE HELP!!!! Needing to Change Accessibility Settings
in MS 365 for Email and Having Serious Difficulty Doing so with JAWS 16

Hi All,
  I am trying to make my  work email accessible from home where I check it
only on the internet as I check a different account through my MS outlook
and  do not want to check both that way for various reasons.

  We are in the process of switching to Microsoft 365 at work and it is
giving me the non-accessible site without any ability to easily change it to
an accessible version. Can anyone please help!!!! I would be extremely
grateful!

  I am using:

Windows 7 (latest edition)
Latest version of IE
JAWS 16 (yes 16) latest version

  If you need more technical specs just let me know.
Have a wonderful day all!
Chris

Dr. Christine M. Szostak
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Social Sciences
Shorter University
Rome, Georgia
szostak.1 at osu.edu<mailto:szostak.1 at osu.edu>
cszostak at shorter.edu

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