Hello Grant, Thank you so much for this report on Outlook.
I have two questions: 1. Can you please report on how well VoiceOver and Outlook do with reading messages in a threaded view? 2. If one does not have a Microsoft 365 account, can one still purchase Outlook as a stand alone solution on the Mac? Thank you again for taking the time to let us know about MS Outlook for the Mac. Mark From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Grant Hardy Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 12:22 AM To: Mac Visionaries List Subject: The latest version of Microsoft Outlook appears to be accessible Hello all, When Microsoft released a new version of Outlook for Mac last week I was as curious as anyone else to know whether or not it would be fully usable by VoiceOver users. Eventually, I just decided to install it and give it a go. I am very happy to report that my first impressions have been very positive. I will admit that Microsoft Outlook has crashed a few times and is sometimes sluggish, but that is probably because for a first test I chose to open a huge data set from Outlook for Windows. I have by no means played with all or even most of Outlook for Mac’s features, but I can confirm that the following is working just fine with VoiceOver: • Editing a contact • - Composing an Email (like this one) and moving through the text • - Setting up an appointment in the calendar and finding it in the default month calendar view • - Navigating your folder list, and the list of messages • - Expanding and collapsing folders, as well as messages in conversation view • - Editing preferences and Email accounts • - Using the search feature to search through messages and browsing the list of results • - Opening and reading plain text and HTML messages • - Hearing formatting (for example, Outlook is generating a bulleted list for me and VoiceOver is announcing that; voiceOver also correctly reports that Microsoft Office’s default font of Calibri is in use) There is much more to play with but I am very favourably impressed. Let us hope that the rest of the forthcoming Office for Mac suite is as accessible as this. And for everyone with an Office 365 subscription of some kind, you might want to give this a try. I will admit though that I’ve really grown to love the mail, contacts, calendars, notes and reminders apps in OS X and will continue to use them, for now, for my day to day activities. Grant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
