Use a screen reader to show flagged emails as tasks in To Do
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This article is for people who use a screen reader program such as Windows Narrator, JAWS, or NVDA with Windows tools or features and Microsoft 365 products. This article is part of the Accessibility help & learning content set where you can find more accessibility information on our apps. For general help, visit Microsoft Support.

Use To Do with your keyboard and a screen reader to show and manage your flagged emails as tasks in To Do. We have tested it with Narrator, JAWS, and NVDA, but it might work with other screen readers as long as they follow common accessibility standards and techniques.

Notes: 

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Show flagged emails as tasks

To show flagged email as tasks, create the Flagged email list.

 When you've created the Flagged email list, it's available in To Do on all your other devices.

  1. Sign in to To Do with the same personal, work, or school account that you use for email.

  2. Press the Tab key until you hear: "List navigation landmark."

  3. Press the Up or Down arrow key until you hear "Flagged email," and then press Enter.

  4. Press the Tab key until you hear "Create button," and then press Enter.

  5. The Flagged email option lists the set of tasks in the Flagged today button in the tree view. To collapse or expand a set of tasks, press Enter.

Navigate to the Flagged email list

When you've created the Flagged email list, flagged messages from the past 30 days will show up as tasks in the Flagged email list. Also, all messages that you flag in the future will appear as tasks in this list.

You can manage the tasks in the Flagged email list like any other tasks.

  1. Press the Tab key until you hear "Lists," followed by the name of the currently selected list.

  2. Press the Up or Down arrow key until you hear "Flagged email," and then press Enter.

  3. Press the Right arrow key to move to the first task in the Flagged email list view.

  4. To select the task and open it in the detail view, press Enter.

  5. To move in the detail view, use the Down and Up arrow keys.

  6. To exit the detail view and return to the Flagged email list view, press Esc.

See also

Use a screen reader to work with tasks in To Do

Use a screen reader to add steps and set importance to a task in To Do

Use a screen reader to work with lists in To Do

Use a screen reader to work with suggestions in To Do

Set up your device to work with accessibility in Microsoft 365

Use a screen reader to explore and navigate To Do

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