Office 365 VS Google Docs – Accessibility Part One

Office 365 VS Google Docs – Accessibility Part One

Written by Lorenzo V.

Hi everyone,

This is going to be a multi part blog series taking a look at Office 365 and Google docs. Today’s post will be focusing on accessibility, how easy is it to use these tools, and what is their availability on desktop, mobile and web.

 

Accessibility

How easy is it to get up and running with Google Docs VS Office 365?

Google Docs  

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Google Docs is offered for free by default with the creation of a Google account, you also can receive Google Docs for free by merging an existing email (personalized domain, or other provider) to sync with your Google Chrome browser, or Android device. There isn’t much in the way of customization for its web based editor but this is understandable because of the open source nature of its file formats. WYSIWYG is very much in place here which is to Google Docs benefit because of its simple to understand editing tools, most new users wouldn’t have too many problems getting to what they need.

Google doc navigation panel

 

Google Docs comes with a docs, sheets, and slides. Through your desktop you have access to Google Drive. I won’t add the add ons for offline editing because they can only be used through the Google Chrome browser and are not their own stand alone applications. For the mobile space you have Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Google Drive.  Offline editors are also available on Android, and iOS. At the time of writing this I was not able to find an applications for Windows Phone.

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