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

[David Andrews]

Well, if you read any technology stuff today you will quickly see 
references to the Cloud.  Basically it is storage, applications and 
the like located at a remote site.  You generally access them through 
a browser and the Internet.  Instead of doing stuff, and storing 
stuff on your local PC, they are handled remotely, (in the cloud,) 
and you just connect to them as needed.

Dave

At 08:57 AM 4/15/2012, you wrote:
>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