[nabs-l] FW: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No LongerAccessible

[Chris Nusbaum]

Oh no, not Google inaccessibility again! Well, there is an 
accessible Google search option, but I'm not sure if the settings 
thing is on that page.  It doesn't hurt to try, though.  Try 
going to www.google.com/accessibility and see if you can find 
what you're looking for there.  This address is where the 
accessible Google search has been moved to with the taking down 
of labs.google.com, where it used to be.

Chris

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Humberto Avila" <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com
To: <nabs-l at nfbNet.org
Date sent: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:31:05 -0800
Subject: [nabs-l] FW: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No 
LongerAccessible

I am bringing this to your attention as it looks like this change 
occurred
just today.  Please read on.  This company is facing another 
possible lawsuit.

-----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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