[Trainer-Talk] New microsoft outlook beta.

[Brian Vogel]

>From the NVDA group, message #122381
<https://nvda.groups.io/g/nvda/message/122381>, regarding New Outlook:

I’ve encountered the following issue with Outlook Classic and JAWS; I
didn’t try NVDA: when certain HTML messages are opened, the screen reader
and Outlook become totally unresponsive for probably about a minute. I
haven’t timed it, so that’s just an estimate. After that, the message
becomes available for reading and navigation, and all works normally.

Since upgrading to the New Outlook for Microsoft 365, I haven’t experienced
this issue, perhaps because the New Outlook is built on Web technologies,
and uses the underlying browser engine’s HTML rendering capabilities,
including screen reader support.

and from a private conversation I'm having with someone about New Outlook:

JAWS 2025 has a script for the New Outlook, if I recall the release notes
correctly. It’s also invoked if the user runs Outlook for Web, as of the
December JAWS update (again, from memory).

I don’t know what issues people are likely to run into with older versions
of JAWS or New Outlook.