[nabs-l] access to gmail

Thu Jul 29 15:21:40 UTC 2010

Or you can also use www.solona.net. 

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On Jul 29, 2010, at 10:18 AM, lsterling0 <l.sterling0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I use firefox and webvisum for the times I need to get past these pesky
> things.
> Hth
> Lou
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Steve Jacobson
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 6:07 AM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] access to gmail
> 
> 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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