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

[Mike Freeman]

Good point. However, part of the problem is that the sighted *love* their eye-candy and can't conceive of a page stayhing the same for more than a few nanoseconds -- after all, they might either get bored or actualy have to read the page -- so that it's damnably difficult (as someone else here has intimated) to get Google to not redirect one to a new page each time one brings it up.

Mike Freeman


On Dec 13, 2011, at 15:14, "Humberto Avila" <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone tried doing so with JAWS 12 or 13, and Internet Explorer 8 and 9?
> In your message you specified that you used JAWS 9, and JAWS 9 is quite
> outdated already, so that is why I'm wondering if anyone else has tried
> accessing those settings with JAWS 12 and / or 13. I use JAWS 13, and maybe
> the live regions or support for clickable content has greatly improved with
> JAWS 12 or 13.
> 
> -----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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