Areas for development, Vpat documentation – Google Accessibility Administrator Guide User Manual

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Administrator Guide to Accessibility

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Google Apps Services & Accessibility

Alternative ways to interact with Gmail and Contacts

Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook This is a Microsoft Outlook plug-in that lets you

use Microsoft Outlook as a client for Google Apps email, calendar, and contacts. Email,

calendar events (including recurring meetings), and contacts are all synchronized between

Google Apps and Microsoft Outlook.

Help and information for administrators:

http://support.google.com/a/bin/

answer.py?answer=148484

Help and information for end users:

http://support.google.com/a/bin/

topic.py?topic=23333&rd=1

Download Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/

gappssync

Note: Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook isn’t supported for Mac. Microsoft Outlook

for Mac doesn’t support the Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI), which

is required for Google Apps Sync to communicate with Outlook. This Outlook limitation

makes a Mac-compatible version of Google Apps Sync infeasible.

POP and IMAP This option allows your users to continue accessing their email in their

familiar email client. To enable/disable POP and IMAP access, follow the instructions at

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?answer=105694

.

Note: At this time, it’s not possible to enable IMAP while using the basic HTML interface

(see

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=15049

). Please use the

standard view to see this option.

Areas for development

Gmail Chat: The chat feature built directly into the Gmail interface is not accessible.

We recommend using the Miranda client for Windows 7 JAWS users.

Settings: These pages are not yet optimized for screen readers.

Use of color to convey information: In some cases Gmail uses color to convey

information to show when an email has been read and to indicate which words have

spelling errors. That information is not currently available to assistive technology

users.

VPAT documentation

Gmail VPAT documentation:

https://mail.google.com/mail/help/accessibility.html

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