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

[Justin Harford]

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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