[blindLaw] questions about accessing suggestions in Google Docs with JAWS

[Rahul Bajaj]

Hi All,

So I have found a workaround, drawing on Aine's suggestion. This is with
JAWS 2021. When I press alt+/ and key in preview, it gives an option called
'preview accept all'.  You then have to copy-paste the text into a Word
document to view the version with all changes accepted. So there's no way
to view the document in Docs itself, with all suggestions accepted.

Are others facing this problem also? If so, I'll report it to Google.

Warmly,
Rahul



On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 at 23:21, Áine Kelly-Costello via BlindLaw <
blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Google docs does have a preview option with suggestions accepted, if you
> press alt+/ to get to the search bar and then start typing preeview, it
> should come up I think (I'm not in front of my computer just now). You
> can't do any editing while in that view but I imagine you may be able to
> select  text, copy and paste it somewhere else for easier reading.
>
> > On 25/01/2022, at 6:41 PM, Justin Harford via BlindLaw <
> blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > I might handle this in a couple ways. But I warn you that I use
> nonvisual desktop access.
> >
> > Go to the tools menu, where you can find the option to review suggested
> edits. Press enter on that in a dialogue opens. Tab until you find the
> button that says except all suggestions and press enter on that.
> >
> > Another option is to review the suggested edits in the email that
> usually gets sent to your Gmail account. Each suggested edit is prefaced
> with a heading tag, and I think it's a little bit more clear to see what
> the person is doing.
> >
> > I hope that is useful.
> >
> > Justin
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On Jan 24, 2022, at 11:56 PM, Rahul Bajaj via BlindLaw <
> blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Everyone,
> >>
> >> As you are aware, many people collaborate on documents using Google Docs
> >> now. When dealing with 'suggestions' that others have made, I face the
> >> following difficulty. JAWS indicates that a particular portion of text
> >> forms a suggestion, by saying 'suggestion start' before the start of
> that
> >> text and 'suggestion end' when the text ends. But it does not report
> >> whether the suggested text has been inserted or deleted. How can one
> make
> >> out this information?
> >>
> >> Further, when some words have been deleted and some words have been
> >> inserted in a particular portion of text, it reports the entire portion
> in
> >> a very haphazard manner, such that one cannot make out what the final
> >> version actually says.
> >>
> >> In Word, the way I deal with this is by switching to the 'no markup'
> option
> >> in the review pane. Can one do something similar in Google Docs i.e.
> view
> >> the final version with all changes accepted?
> >>
> >> Finally, one possible solution would be to download the document in
> Word.
> >> But when I do this, JAWS constantly prefixes every suggestion or comment
> >> with 'rich content control'. Is there a way to stop it from saying that?
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> >>
> >> 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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Rahul Bajaj
Senior Resident Fellow,
Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi, India
Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018)
University of Oxford