Hi Eamonn,
Do you know what versions of Exchange and SharePoint?
I find Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 very accessible and easy to use
with NVDA. It will need familiarisation of course but it seems fully
accessible.
SharePoint is another story. The consensus of what I have read seems
to suggest that SharePoint 2007 was virtually unusable. SharePoint
2010 became accessible to a good extent but not easy to use. It seems
that Sharepoint 2013 and 2016 have improved in accessibility but I
haven't found anyone saying that it is easy to use.
I have been using SharePoint2010 over the last year.
I am using NVDA as a screen reader.
SharePoint prefers Internet Explorer as a browser, particularly for
ActiveX controls and interfacing between SharePoint and Excel. but
some features of it work perfectly with Mozilla Firefox.
The initial impression of SharePoint is a bit off-putting.
Each page has a lot of links ( in my case at least 150).
The toolbar menus seem to work but are very sluggish taking over 10
seconds to move from one button to the next for me.
You will need to take a fair bit of time to become familiar with a
page layout and develop your own work-arounds to find things..
However, so far, I have been able to find a work-around to do
everything I needed to do, albeit after a lot of trial and error .
Some suggestions:
Use webpage search in JAWS or NVDA to find the text you are looking
for on a page.
Use the links list as a way of finding the link you want.
There are Headings and tables on pages, but these don't seem ideally
located to me. I have found the following approach is the quickest
when on a page that shows a library or folder of documents:
When you are on a page that shows a library / folder containing
documents, hit X to jump to the top of the file list and hit X
repeatedly to jump from doc to doc. X is the browser navigation key
for Checkbox.
Once you land on the document you want, it is fairly straightforward
to open and read or edit it.
(note that using cursor keys doesn't seem to be an effective way of
moving doc to doc).
Windows Explorer seems much easier to use. You can map a drive in
Windows Explorer to a site in SharePoint. However, if you do this
through Windows Explorer, you may get a set of old or archived folders
appearing as well as the live set.
There is a separate way of mapping from front-end SharePoint from the
web side and I think this is better, but it has separate
limitations.
SharePoint has a thing called a list. This looks like a spreadsheet.
It is possibly accessible but doesn’t seem to me to be screen-reader
friendly. You can export a list as an Excel Spreadsheet and refresh it
every time you open the spreadsheet. With a bit of trickery and
assistance from a SharePoint expert, it is possible to update the
list from the spreadsheet but this doesn't work out of the box.
I think this is the best approach also for a SharePoint calendar.
I suggest you compile a list of the things you will need to do in
SharePoint and come up with a work-around for dealing with each one.
Some things will be quite easy. For instance if you need to look up a
particular spreadsheet or doc stored on SharePoint on a regular basis,
once you know its page and document name, you can mark the page as a
favourite go straight to the page and use JAWS search or use the links
list to find the doc on the page and open it.
I think SharePoint 2010 is possibly accessible, but I have found it
cumbersome and slow to use. It doesn't appear to me be ideal for
screen reader use.
There is documentation on using shortcut keys in SharePoint available
on the web. The keys don't always seem to behave as documented for me,
but this may be due to certain options not being set correctly, or
possibly due to a wrong browser version. However, I think if you have
enough time and patience you can probably do most things.
There is an option on each page "Turn on more accessible mode" I found
This is some help in some situations.
I have found documentation on shortcut keys.
My impression is that you may need to Google everything you want to do
and over time you will be able to build up a set of instructions on
how to do each task. You may need a lot of patience! You may also need
to get options set in a particular way.
but as yet I haven't found a comprehensive set of hints and tips and
recommended option settings that make SharePoint easy to use with a
screen reader. If you find one please post the link to this list!
On 13/09/2016, Eamonn X. O'Connor <EXOConnor@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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Many thanks for that.
I am now being added to a test group, so I should have access to it
shortly.
At that point, no doubt, all the "fun" will begin!
Regards,
Eamonn
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Hi Eamonn,
MS Outlook is absolutely accessible, I find it very good overall, once you
get used to the menus and shortcuts of course.
Exchange accounts can also be accessed very simply and accessibly on
mobile, both on iOS and Android.
Sharepoint I'm afraid isn't such a pleasure to use. By default, at least in
my case, Sharepoint is accessed through a web portal. It is technically
largely accessible, but in my opinion is at best a royal pain in the ass!
Stuart did though recently mention on this list that it is possible to map
Sharepoint to Windows Explorer, so you can use it a bit more like how you
would use Dropbox I guess, so this is probably something you should
investigate with your IT department. I've been meaning to do that myself.
HTH
Dave
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On 12 Sep 2016, at 14:23, Eamonn X. O'Connor <EXOConnor@xxxxxxx> wrote:last
Hi folks,
The Dept. of Justice intends moving from Lotus Notes to Microsoft's
Exchange and Sharepoint early next year, according to an email issued
week.**********************************************************************************
I'm wondering if there are any issues in accessing either of these
programs, with Jaws 16?
Are there any podcasts / audio demos on the topic?
Thought I should check things out while there's plenty of time!
Regards with thanks,
Eamonn
Many thanks for any help.
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