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Rahul Bajaj
Hi All, My current firm uses Office Online a great deal for their work. I find that my existing tech skills are not enough to help me navigate this platform effectively. I am also unable to open in the One Drive desktop app documents that are opened in Office Online. Any guidance on the above or leads for using Office Online would be greatly appreciated. Warmly, Rahul -- Rahul Bajaj Attorney, Ira Law Senior Associate Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018), University of Oxford Co-Founder, Mission Accessibility Special Correspondent on the rights of persons with disabilities, Oxford Human Rights Hub Coordinator of the working group on accessibility, e-Committee, Supreme Court of India |
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Chris Hill
You probably need to have a serious talk with your tech people.
Office online is not what a sane person would call accessible.
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CH On 7/31/2022 00:34, Rahul Bajaj wrote:
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Curtis Chong
Hello Rahul:
From the perspective of a blind user running JAWS, it is not the most efficient use of your time to use the web interface to Office. It is a reasonable accommodation for your employer to install Microsoft 365 on to your work system. If you need additional information to justify a request of this nature, I am sure people on this list would be more than happy to supply you with the information you need.
Cordially,
Curtis Chong
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Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2022 11:34 PM To: main <main@jfw.groups.io> Subject: using office online in chrome with jaws
Hi All,
My current firm uses Office Online a great deal for their work. I find that my existing tech skills are not enough to help me navigate this platform effectively. I am also unable to open in the One Drive desktop app documents that are opened in Office Online.
Any guidance on the above or leads for using Office Online would be greatly appreciated.
Warmly, Rahul
-- -- Senior Associate Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy Co-Founder, Mission Accessibility Special Correspondent on the rights of persons with disabilities, Oxford Human Rights Hub Coordinator of the working group on accessibility, e-Committee, Supreme Court of India |
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David Kingsbury
Hi Rahul , The folks at Freedom Scientific strongly discourage using the online version of Office, only the desktop version. Among other things, I have found Excel to be completely inaccessible. I haven’t played around with the online version enough to see what else goes wrong, but you really must insist with your I T people to install the desktop version. As others have said, this certainly can be considered a reasonable accommodation. With regard to OneDrive, your I T people can set up your OneDrive account so that you can access the OneDrive folder from within your user folder. You can then save files there and manage them from within the familiar Windows desktop environment. It should take them less than 5 minutes to set that up, and all files and folders will be synced online. David |
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Rahul Bajaj
thanks, all. i think i have been able to sort this out. documents that are mailed to me using sharepoint are now opening in office applications on my computer. and for folders that are shared with me via email, i go to them on sharepoint and open the relevant file in the relevant office application by right clicking it. warmly, rahul On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 at 21:26, David Kingsbury <davidkingsbury77@...> wrote:
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-- Rahul Bajaj Attorney, Ira Law Senior Associate Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018), University of Oxford Co-Founder, Mission Accessibility Special Correspondent on the rights of persons with disabilities, Oxford Human Rights Hub Coordinator of the working group on accessibility, e-Committee, Supreme Court of India |
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