[Athen] Login problems with Microsoft 365 login

[Lissner, L S. (Scott )]

Thanks, nicely done.




From: Ken Petri [mailto:petri.1 at osu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 10:14 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>; CIC IT Accessibility Usability Group <cic-it-accessibility at cic.net>
Subject: [Athen] Login problems with Microsoft 365 login

Ohio State students use Microsoft's hosted email system. (Faculty and staff use a local Exchange instance.) The service for students that we call Buckeyemail was upgraded by Microsoft earlier this week to keep it in line with the MS 365 product.

We found that, once you had logged in once and your browser recognized your organizational email address, subsequent logins with the same browser gave you a login interface that was not (easily) accessible to screen reader users. The organizational login button is not clickable using a screen reader, unless you put the screen reader into pass-through mode -- something that we felt our students would be unlikely to discover on their own.

We have put a notification up on our Buckeyemail/email selection page, here:

https://email.osu.edu/

Right now users are directed to contact our help line, but in the next day or so we will be adding a link to a knowledge base article that explains how to work around the issue. We are also in contact with MS through our campus rep.

If your campus uses 365 for student or other email, your screen reader users may be affected.

Note that keyboard only users are not affected. Note also that we could not get VoiceOver on Mac to work with the login interface at all.

The problem is only apparent after you have logged in once and your browser sets the cookie to remember your username for subsequent logins.

Best,

ken
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