Outlook Screen Reader: Email Open, Close, Delete

Ricky: Hello, my name is Ricky Enger and today we'll begin working with messages in Microsoft Outlook. We'll open and read a message, learn a couple of ways to close a message and we'll delete messages we no longer need. We're using NVDA as our screen reader, but the concepts we learn here will be pretty similar no matter which screen reader we're using.

Anticipation, it's that thing we feel when we've ordered something and we're waiting for it to ship or when we're sitting by the phone, hoping for that call giving us good news. Or when we're listening for that sound from Outlook signifying that a new message has arrived. Yeah, that sound! What is it? What did we get? Let's open it! Feels like Christmas morning, doesn't it? Okay, maybe not, but it's still kind of exciting when we receive a message we've been waiting for. Like this one from Hadley with information about talking tablets.

Screen Reader: Unread from LearnTech, subject re: talking tablets.

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