NEW OUTLOOK


Microsoft has released a new version of Outlook which visually looks simpler and faster to use. The drawback I have found is that it takes Mail to be more like Outlook app and therefore more complex menus for blind users to access.

Also, I found that my freelance companies who use their own servers you have to go to the web version. The Outlook app doesn’t alllow it now! Grrr!! You have the options to go back to the old version which alllows you to keep all mail clients in one place.

Microsoft have said they will transfer across Mail to the new look Outlook on the 15th January 2024 in a rather forceful and scary way to us. So we will see if my blind client can access it. If not it will be much more complicated for her. This brings me to an ethical point in that should we not have the choice to change our outlook according to what works for us? If that is taken away it may result in less functioanlity than we had before.

Keep you posted in that one as well!

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