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

Tue Dec 13 22:35:44 UTC 2011

http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html can help out with the number of 
search results.  Bad side of that page is no google ads pop up.On Tue, 13 
Dec 2011, Gerald Levy wrote:

> 
> This is all well and good if all you want to do is turn off Google Instant.
> But what if you want to change the number of search results per page from the
> default of 10 to 20 or 50?  Or specify that each search result opens in a new
> browser window?  Apparently, there is no longer any way to accomplish this.
> 
> Gerald
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
> To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List"
> <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible
> 
> 
> > There's only just some screen readers google recognizes.  nvda at least
> > brought up a message to turn off instant google if you're a screen
> > reader user, and after I connected to the google search page for the
> > first time I had to hit up arrow once then enter to activate it.  Hope
> > this helps.
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, Don Moore wrote:
> >
> > > When I go to google.com, it's on the first page.
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
> > > To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List"
> > > <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 4:03 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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>
> > > To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List"
> > > <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> > > 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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