[humanser] Google docs

Fri Jul 31 04:38:20 UTC 2015

Ericka,
Thanks for that... You did ease my mind.
Mary
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From: humanser [mailto:humanser-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Brl2014!
via humanser
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 1:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [humanser] Google docs

To alleviate your fears Mary, it uses jaws commands so you aren't learning
something brand-new.

Ericka
Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 29, 2015, at 7:00 PM, David Andrews via humanser
<humanser at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> NVDA is a free, open source screen reader, similar to JAWS, 
> Window-Eyes, etc. It stands for NonVisual Desktop Access and can be 
> found at www.nvaccess.org
> 
> It is a good program and will sometimes work when one of the others
doesn't.
> 
> Dave
> 
> At 10:28 PM 7/26/2015, you wrote:
>> Kaiti,
>> I am not familiar with  NVDA. Please elaborate. I am truly being 
>> introduced to a new world as you share. I too, like you, have my 
>> resistance issues and points of denial to protect the status quo. I 
>> think to myself, "I have no time to learn anything new and, if Google 
>> was more pro-active in the accessibility arena this wouldn't be an 
>> issue." You express the truest truth, I need to engage and learn this 
>> new way to open my world that much farther. Thank you. I am going to try
it now.
>> Mary Tatum Chappell
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: humanser [mailto:humanser-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
>> Kaiti Shelton via humanser
>> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 10:49 PM
>> To: Human Services Division Mailing List
>> Cc: Kaiti Shelton
>> Subject: Re: [humanser] Google docs
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Google docs works best with NVDA and the Mozilla Firefox Browser.
>> Google docs does take some time to get used to, but it is accessible 
>> if you use the recommended browser-screenreader combination and 
>> reference their screenreader help guide for hot key and shortcut
commands.
>> 
>> You can download both Firefox and NVDA easily enough if you don't 
>> already have them installed.  Both are free and should come up with a 
>> simple google search.  The google screenreader guide can be found at:
>> https://support.google.com/docs/answer/1632201?hl=en
>> 
>> While I certainly sympathize with the thought that it is annoying to 
>> have to switch browsers and screenreaders to access docs, I can say 
>> that since I stopped being stubborn so many doors have opened up for 
>> me.  I wouldn't use google docs for years on the grounds that it was 
>> inaccessible; I didn't want to switch from using JAWS with IE because 
>> Google should have universal accessibility, and I didn't want to have 
>> to learn commands just for Google Docs that I didn't already know because
I didn't have the time to do so.
>> Since I did stop working under these notions I have found Google Docs 
>> to be worth the effort.
>> It is by no means perfect and I'm also by no means a whiz at it, but 
>> I can at least access and edit docs a little now.
>> 
>> I hope this helps.
>> 
>> On 7/26/15, Michael Abell via humanser <humanser at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> > Yes,
>> >       You can also copy and paste into Word and other programs from 
>> > the printed document. I use this when I have a document that I 
>> > cannot use traditional OCR.
>> >
>> > Dog
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: humanser [mailto:humanser-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of JD 
>> > Townsend via humanser
>> > Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 12:27 PM
>> > To: Human Services Division Mailing List
>> > Cc: JD Townsend
>> > Subject: Re: [humanser] Google docs
>> >
>> >
>> > The Freedom Inport Printer can be located in the print menu, along 
>> > with your print output printer, but it does not work as they do.  
>> > It "prints" out speech.  Within the document you may pause, copy or 
>> > work within the document, even save it.
>> >
>> > Best of luck.
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Dr. Mary Chappell via humanser
>> > Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 12:45 PM
>> > To: 'Human Services Division Mailing List'
>> > Cc: Dr. Mary Chappell
>> > Subject: [humanser] Google docs
>> >
>> > Good afternoon Federation family,
>> >
>> > First, I want to say thank you for all that offered insight to my 
>> > struggles with JAWS 16 and OCR issues. Now I have another access 
>> > dilemma. I receive Google docs and Kendall gift forwards for 
>> > scholarly review or shared access.
>> > I am not finding that I am able to successfully access these 
>> > documents for reading. Maybe something opens but, no configuration 
>> > of key combinations or efforts of going in and out to redirect 
>> > cursor view works in getting me to the info. Any ideas?
>> >
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