Outlook
Overview
Outlook offers the same accessible features and tools throughout all their Microsoft Office products such as Microsoft Word. To learn how to incorporate these features into an email go to听UDC鈥檚 Word Accessibility听page. Also, outlook also has additional accessibility features to help optimize an email.听
Request an Accessible Email
One of the unique features in Outlook is that a person can notify a sender that they prefer to receive accessible emails. This听feature is essential with anyone with a disability because they will let the content creator know to design emails with accessibility in mind.
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Text Readability
As written text is one of the most critical aspects of an email, Outlook offers a text readability feature to ensure a wide array of readers can understand emails. This feature analyzes and email to determine its reading level and can be enabled via Outlook鈥檚 email options.
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Screen Readers
Screen readers can scan through emails, read calendar appointments, and help compose emails. To navigate through emails, open Outlook, then by using the 鈥淭ab鈥� and 鈥淪hift + Tab鈥� to navigate through your email list. To reply to a message use 鈥淐TRL + R鈥� for emails with multiple recipients use 鈥淐TRL + Shift + R.鈥�