[Trainer-talk] training client in office and email. suggestions?

[David Goldfield]

Brett,
You asked about whether you should try and train your student on 
Outlook.  I think this partially depends on where the student is 
planning to use the program.  If the student is doing all of his/her 
work at home then Outlook may be overkill unless the student wants to 
use the calendar features, which will work nicely with both JAWS and 
Window-eyes.  For Windows 7 I think that Windows Live Mail, while it 
does use the ribbon, isn't a bad email program for home use and hotkeys 
will allow the user to perform most commonly used functions just as 
Outlook Express did in Windows XP.
Also, you can install older versions of Office with the classic menu bar 
on Windows 7.  At work we have some Win7 machines with Office 2003 and 
there are no issues.  I personally prefer LibreOffice for most 
work-related word processing but I'm not sure I'd recommend that to 
users of JAWS and Window-eyes and these screen readers do work quite 
well with Word.
David

Brett Boyer wrote:
> Hey all. Well I'm finally getting back on the training train. Anyway I have a client who is moving to windows7. She is used to classic style menus for office and she uses outlook express. I'd like to find the easiest transition possible for her. So what r people's recommendations.
> 1 Using the ribbon control in office. I thought someone said on here it's possible to use a classic style menu bar in Office. But is ribbon control worth it in the long-run.
> 2  is it worth training her in outlook since it's widely used but in the blindness community it is not very popular and seems a little confusing.
>
> This person is a writer and like I said I think the easiest and fastest transition is the best way to go here.
> bb
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