[gui-talk] the New Outlook.com
Steve Jacobson
steve.jacobson at visi.com
Sun Dec 20 02:32:11 UTC 2015
David,
Thank you for the warning and the description. There were settings within
the old OUTLOOK.COM for junk mail settings so they are probably still
available somewhere. I don't know of any way you could ever turn them off
completely, though. I have been really frustrated because the junk folder
just takes more work. I find that I will try to let certain addresses
through and it works for a while but then seems to get over-written or
something. If you learn more about this, I would be very interested to hear
what you find.
Best regards,
Steve Jacobson
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Subject: [gui-talk] the New Outlook.com
First, in order to avoid any confusion, let me start out by saying that
this has nothing to do with Microsoft Outlook or with Windows Live Mail.
If you use Outlook 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, Windows Live Mail,
Thunderbird, etc., this will have no affect on your software. What I'm
writing about concerns the actual outlook.com Web site, where you can,
with a Web browser, check and manage email. I rarely used this site at
home as I prefer using an email program but occasionally used it on
other computers while I was away from home.
I just received an email from Microsoft indicating that Outlook.com has
undergone some changes and I decided to visit it to see how it worked
with my screen reader.
On my computer at home, I have NVDA and Window-Eyes installed. As of
now, I have not tried the site with Window-Eyes but worked with using
NVDA, which is my preferred screen reader.
At first, the site seemed to take a long time to load. To be fair, my
DSL connection is a bit slow and my wife is currently watching TV via
our Roku in the other room, which shouldn't slow down the connection
but, with our DSL connection from Verizon, can be a factor. Once it
loaded, there were some intro screens, where I had to press a "next"
button a few times until I got to the equivalent of a "finish" button,
which I eagerly pressed.
Microsoft has implemented some interesting Web navigation which reminds
me of some amazing things done by Yahoo several years ago and, in my
opinion, got far less attention than it deserved.
Now, using Outlook.com feels, in many ways, like you're using Outlook.
In the message list, NVDA's browse mode turned itself off (this is
turning forms mode on for JAWS users) and, when pressing down arrow, I
could move through my message list and the from and subject headers were
very nicely spoken, just as though I were in Outlook. Pressing enter
opened the message but I needed to turn NVDA's browse mode back on in
order to read it. As I tabbed around, I eventually found a "settings"
button which opened up a treeview of various options. Pressing spacebar
seemed to be the easiest way to select an option, browse mode would turn
on and I'd be in a list of form elements with various checkboxes and
radio buttons to adjust options. It seems pretty comprehensive but I
played around with very little of them except for the junk filtering as
I had hoped for a way to tell Outlook.com to not place any messages
whatsoever in the junk folder. It's possible I'm missing something but
there seems to be no obvious way to do this, which, if true, I find a
bit annoying.
I'll report later on as I work more with this interface. However, for
those who actually visit www.outlook.com with your favorite Web browser,
I wanted to at least warn you that what you will encounter will be quite
different from what you've been working with so far.
--
David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist Feel free to visit my
Web site WWW.DavidGoldfield.Info
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