[nabs-l] access to gmail

[Steve Jacobson]

I can't seem to solve their audio CAPTCHA, any hints on that?  <smile>

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:03:57 -0400, Jewel S. wrote:

>Instead of hitting the down arrow, when I hit shift + H to get to the
>last sender (last heading), I then hit N for non-link text, and that
>almost always sends me to the beginning of the e-mail, except when it
>doesn't *grin* Usually, the only reason it wouldn't send me to the
>beginning of the e-mail is if the beginning is a link or graphic,
>which is not very common.

>Also, because GMail uses conversational mode, it stacks the e-mails.
>Thus, any e-mail that has the same subject will be placed with the
>others of that subject. This took a bit of time for me to get used to,
>but if you find the link "Expand All" within the conversation, it will
>show all the e-mails in that conversation, and each sender's name will
>be a heading. So, you can use shift + H to get to the last sender,
>then repeat to get to the message before that, and so on until you get
>to the Subject heading.

>GMail has a large number of pages with information about using their
>e-mail system with a screenreader on GMail Help:

>Using GMail with a Screenreader
>http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=90559

>Using the Basic HTML mode with a screenreader
>http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146375

>Among the browser-based email clients, I have found GMail to be the
>most accessible, but not all features of Google are as accessible,
>including Google Wave, which I don't think is usable by a
>screenreader-user.

>On 7/28/10, Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Ashley!
>> I've used gmail for years.  If you are a JAWS user when in your gmail
>> account I would suggest go to list of links and hit "b" which will go
>> to "Basic Html".  to make it your default go to "set Basic html as
>> default".  As for headdings, when you open a message I would suggest
>> hit "shift + h".  the last headding will be your message.  It won't go
>> directly to your message, but you use down arrow and it will get to
>> your message.
>> Hope thiss helps!
>> Justin
>>
>> On 7/28/10, Ashley  Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Yes after some searching I found the  HTML setting.  IF I click to make it
>>> default, does it save that setting and won't change to standard unless I
>>> change it?  Also, lots of links along the side of the page.  What commands
>>> are best to get to the text of the email?  Would the heading command, H,
>>> work?  I don't know if there's always a heading at the top of a message.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> Ashley
>>>
>>>
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>-- 
>~Jewel
>Check out my blog about accessibility for the blind!
>Treasure Chest for the Blind: http://blindtreasurechest.blogspot.com

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