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

[Joshua Lester]

Wow!
It appears, that I have to jump in here!
I was listening to the highlights, from past conventions, yesterday,
when I first heard of "The Cloud."
Then, you mentioned it, on this thread.
I must be behind times, so what is "the Cloud?"
Thanks, Joshua

On 4/15/12, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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