[Trainer-Talk] Bringing Back the Classic Outlook

[Christopher Murphy]

Good morning,
	Thanks for your thoughts. I intend to explore it further fairly soon as a project that I'm going to give myself the goal of becoming more comfortable with it just to make sure that I am able to successfully use this.




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From: Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Brian Vogel via Trainer-Talk
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2026 10:13 AM
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Cc: Brian Vogel <britechguy at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Trainer-Talk] Bringing Back the Classic Outlook

I also agree with Showe Trela.

I recently retired after more than 15 years of tutoring assistive technology, primarily screen readers, and stopped teaching Outlook Classic to anyone who was not already familiar with it or going to be in a work situation where it was the only option.  It's going away, and it makes no sense to set someone up to have to relearn the UI for Microsoft's email client in 3 years, particularly if they're just using email, calendar, and contacts in typical fashion.

It has been perfectly fine, and completely accessible, for the normal day-to-day use cases that well over 90% of my clients actually have in practice.  What's going on now, behind the scenes, is the migration of some of the more advanced capabilities that have been a part of Outlook Classic for a long time over to Outlook (new).  But how many of us really use things like rules that trigger VBA scripts, as but one example of very low frequency use advanced features?

Outlook (new) is somewhat different from Outlook Classic but a very great many keyboard shortcuts that have been in use for decades are still entirely supported.  The adjustments are, in my opinion, minimal and can be made in fairly short order.

Outlook (new) is both accessible and usable.

Brian Vogel
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