[nabs-l] Accessibility of Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google apps for Education

[David Andrews]

Office 365 is Microsoft Office in the Cloud.  We use MS Office 365 
for e-mail where I work -- and I can see no difference between it and 
the client-server version of Outlook we previously used.

I can't speak to other Office 365 programs, as we have just converted 
Mail, but it works well.

Dave

At 08:44 PM 4/13/2012, you wrote:
>Hi Arielle,
>
>I've never heard of Office 365, but I assume from its name that it's a
>version of Microsoft Office, which means it would have Microsoft Outlook. I
>used the Gmail Web site for a long time, and it was pretty accessible in the
>basic HTML mode. However, the problem with basic HTML was it had something
>like only 40 percent of the features offered in the standard view, which
>isn't accessible. So, I would recommend Office for your purposes, but if you
>only want the basic features of email (send email, receive email, reply,
>forward, etc,) you could use the Gmail Web site. However, overall, I'm
>finding Outlook more efficient the more I use it.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Chris
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
>Of Arielle Silverman
>Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 9:46 PM
>To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>Subject: [nabs-l] Accessibility of Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google apps for
>Education
>
>Hi all,
>I got an email from my university's IT office asking students for feedback
>on which email platform to use in the future: Google Apps or Microsoft
>Office 365. I know that Gmail is accessible but many of the other Google
>apps are not yet; however I know nothing about MS-Office 365. I would like
>to give my university accurate suggestions about accessibility of the two
>platforms. Could any of you advise me as to whether Office 365 is accessible
>and/or whether we should expect real improvements in the accessibility of
>Google apps in the near future?
>Best,
>Arielle