Google calendar, Features and options, User resources – Google Accessibility Administrator Guide User Manual

Page 12: Alternative ways to interact with google calendar

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Administrator Guide to Accessibility

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Google Apps Services & Accessibility

Google Calendar

Google Calendar has been enhanced to enable blind and low-vision users to view and edit

the contents of their Google Calendar on the web with their existing screen reader. Users

who prefer a desktop client can sync with an existing desktop program such as Microsoft

Outlook.

Features and options

Core functionality is keyboard accessible with any browser

Agenda view is fully accessible via screen reader

Supports screen magnifiers

Significant improvements to ARIA tags and element labels

User resources

Screen reader instructions for Google Calendar:

http://support.google.com/calendar/

bin/answer.py?answer=1630828

Google Calendar keyboard shortcuts:

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

answer.py?answer=37034

Alternative ways to interact with Google Calendar

Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook This Microsoft Outlook plug-in 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.

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