[gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible

[Don Moore]

When I go to google.com, it's on the first page.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
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I could not find any such link anywhere on the Google Search Settings page.
Where is this link?

Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Moore" <don.moore48 at comcast.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible


> There's a link for screen reader users that fixes that.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "hawkeye" <hawkeye at cox.net>
> To: "'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,GUI Talk Mailing List'"
> <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 3:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible
>
>
> In my case, I cannot get rid of the autofill feature of google.  I have to
> write the search term in another application and then cut and paste it
> into
> the google edit box.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Gerald Levy
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 11:13 AM
> To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible
>
>
> Hi list.  Has anyone else noticed that you can no longer change your
> search
> preferences on the Google Search Settings page?  The radio boxes
> previously
> used to select a particular option under each heading seem to have
> vanished.
> For instance, under the Google Instant heading, On and Off are listed, but
> there are no radio or check boxes to select the option you want.  And
> under
> the Number of Search Results Per Page heading, the numbers 10, 20, 30, 40,
> 50 and 100 are listed, but there seems to be no way to select the number
> you
> want.  And nothing happens when you hit Space or Enter on the Save button,
> so there is apparently no way to activate it to save your preferences like
> you could before.  I have tried JAWS 9, NVDA and SA to Go with both IE 8
> and
> Firefox, but can't select anything on the Search Settings page no matter
> what screen reader/browser combination I try.  Has Google suddenly made
> its
> Search Settings page inaccessible, and is there any work around for this
> problem?  Google seems to be becoming less and less accessible every day.
> Maybe the NFB should look into this issue.  Thanks for any feedback.
>
> Gerald
>
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