[Athen] Possible changes in student email clients

[Heidi Scher]

Thanks, Mike!
I do appreciate everyone's input!!!

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Mike Gibson <mikegibson at boisestate.edu>wrote:


> The university migrated all student accounts to gmail about a year ago, of

> course without consulting with the DRC. Students who did not want to mess

> with the gmail interface I assisted in setting up mail forwarding to their

> personal email client of choice.

>

> The other students who got tired of wading through the truck load of

> information on the gmail page set it to "basic html" and our getting by

> with

> it. It is still cumbersome and inefficient to move around. Obviously not

> all

> of the features present on the standard view are present with the basic so

> in the full meaning of the word accessible gmail is not.

>

> In another stroke of inspiration administration has decided to move all

> employees to Google Apps. The migration is going on as we speak. I myself

> am

> still using Outlook with the "Google calendar sync" utility but I can't

> have

> the benefit of searching calendars and looking up colleagues email

> addresses.  Once again consideration for accessibility took a backseat.

>

>

>

> Regards,

>

> Mike Gibson

> AT Coordinator

> Boise State University

> (208) 426-1583

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

> Behalf Of Gerry Nies

> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:32 AM

> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network;

> MikeGibson at boisestate.edu.test-google-a.com

> Subject: Re: [Athen] Possible changes in student email clients

>

> We looked at these products about a year ago. I asked both vendors about

> accessibility. Microsoft response was it can be done it is not direct but

> very doable. Google's response was, well, aah, um we think it can be done.

>

> Needless to say it was interesting for the powers that be to hear that and

> helped influence us choosing MS which has not been implemented yet due to

> some other factors.

>

> >>> Heidi Scher <hascherdss at gmail.com> 4/27/2009 4:17 PM >>>

> Hi all,

> Our IT department is currently looking at the email client we are using as

> well as reviewing Microsoft's Live at edu and Google Apps to see which would

> better serve our student body email needs.  Thought I'd ask the experts if

> you have any tips/hints regarding accessibility issues with either of the

> last two apps.

> THANKS to all!!

> Heidi

>

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Center for Educational Access
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