[blindLaw] Interacting with tables in Google Docs with JAWS

[Justin Harford]

Hello

You definitely don’t use the tab key, as that will add paragraph indentation.

Try these commands:
Navigate row by row  with up or down arrow, or up or  down arrow holding control + Alt
Navigate  column by column using left or right arrow holding down Ctrl + alt

Ctrl + alt + z turns on screen reader mode
Ctrl + alt + h enable braille

For some reason, nvda has had issues when braille was not enabled even when I was not using a braille display.

Make sure that browse mode is turned off.

Regards, Justin


Sent from my iPad

> On Apr 20, 2022, at 10:53 PM, Rahul Bajaj via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Yesterday, I had to enter some sub-headings in a table I work working on
> with colleagues in Google Docs. I found this very hard to do. Principally,
> this was because JAWS was not moving from one cell to the other smoothly.
> It would start messing up the indentation when I would try to use the tab
> key to move from one cell to the other.
> 
> When I opened the document with NVDA, NVDA did not interact with the
> document altogether. it just kept saying blank. I finally managed to
> complete the exercise with great difficulty by using arrow keys with JAWS.
> 
> Surely, there has to be a better way to do this. Please let me know your
> thoughts on the matter.
> 
> Warmly,
> Rahul
> 
> -- 
> --
> Rahul Bajaj
> Senior Resident Fellow,
> Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi, India
> Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018)
> University of Oxford
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