Hi Amy,
I cheat at work and use Microsoft Exchange, which is a networked
Outlook program so you can log into your Outlook account from any
computer. At home, I use the Gmail web interface for mail and turn
the view from Standard to Basic HTML view. It's a button you can
toggle when you log into Gmail. I don't use Google calendar
personally, but I just saw a couple posts on the Vicug-L list today
about using Google calendar, and it sounds like it's usable. Hope
that helps.
Catherine
On 3/17/16, Amy Bower <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi All:
> For years, I've been using MS Outlook for my e-mail (IMAP), calendar,
> contacts, tasks and notes. It works very smoothly with Jaws. Also for
> years,
> I've kept the all-important data file, the .pst file on DropBox. This
> allows
> me to access all my information from multiple sites, as long as I don't try
> to have it open on more than one machine at a time. This is very important,
> because Outlook locks the .pst file, allowing access from only one machine
> at a time. If you accidently open it on two machines, it will make a
> "conflicted copy" and your changes won't be saved to the original.
> So as long as I'm careful about the latter, this works great. if you look
> up
> syncing .pst files via the cloud online, you will find that it is not
> recommended, I think mainly because of the issue above. But it has worked
> for me for years so I stick with it.
> I just upgraded to Outlook 2013, and it looks like maybe there is a problem
> when outlook tries to update via the DropBox, some DropBox process starts
> that takes the focus and doesn't give it back. So Jaws loses focus and I'm
> in no-where land. I should emphasize that this is only a hypothesis at this
> point--I'm working with Freedom Scientific to see if this is what is
> causing
> Jaws to constantly lose focus.
> So my questions for you all - what are you all using for e-mail, contacts,
> calendar notes, tasks that works well with Jaws and is accessible from
> multiple machines? I will be extremely loathe to give up my outlook, but I
> should take this opportunity to at least ask what others are using for an
> integrated system. In my limited experience with Google Mail and Google
> Calendar, I've found them very cumbersome with Jaws. Maybe it's just a
> matter of getting used to them, but...
> Thanks in advance for your ideas.
> -Amy
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