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

[Mike Freeman]

The sighted *always* change pages for no good reason! Apparently they need the brain stinmulation. 

Mike Freeman


On Dec 14, 2011, at 14:04, "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited at verizon.net> wrote:

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> The bottom line , as far as I'm concerned, is that the Search Settings page was perfectly accessible and easy to use until some nitwit at Google decided he had nothing better to than screw around with the page format.  Maybe I don't get it, but how is the new Search Settings page an improvement over the old one, even for sighted users?  Some clown changed the page just for the sake of change.  There is no good reason I can think of why the page can't be restored to the way it used to be.
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> Gerald
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Jacobson" <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
> To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 4:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible
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> 
>> Mike,
>> 
>> Thank you for the reminder about hos these work.  With Window-Eyes and Internet Explorer 8, I turned
>> browse mode off and then on after pressing ENTER on Options, and they then appeared.  I also found the
>> "slider" that changes the number of results shown.  I routed the Window-Eyes mouse pointer to the slider
>> and then pressed right arrow until I got to the number I wanted and then clicked on it to make the
>> change.  The predictive search can also be turned off on this page.
>> 
>> This is the kind of thing that makes our lives complicated.  This is certainly less convenient, and I
>> find myself really wondering what has been gained.  Besides screen readers, I don't think these sliders
>> can be manipulated from the keyboard, although I need to investigate that more.  Yet, because of how
>> they work, it probably would not be that hard to develop Window-Eyes apps or JFW scripts to make this