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

Carly carlymih at earthlink.net
Sat Dec 17 01:51:16 UTC 2011


Relative to Gmail, YAHOO seems to be used by blind, folksAt 10:25 PM 
12/15/2011, Carly wrote:

>YAHOO seems to be more accessable, than Gmail.At 03:59 PM 
>12/13/2011, Joshua Lester wrote:
>>I haven't had any problems doing searches.
>>Navigating other parts of the site, may be a problem.
>>Even GMail's audio Captcha is inaccessible.
>>It won't play.
>>Google has a long way to go, as far as accessibility is concerned.
>>Blessings, Joshua
>>
>>On 12/13/11, Humberto Avila <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello Joshua,
>> >
>> > I just looked at this myself and, to my knowledge, they are using sliders
>> > that you can slide with a mouse instead of combo boxes, 
>> checkboxes and radio
>> > buttons. These sliders, of course, are not accessible with JAWS and NVDA.
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org 
>> [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
>> > Of Joshua Lester
>> > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 3:48 PM
>> > To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> > Subject: Re: [nabs-l] FW: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No
>> > LongerAccessible
>> >
>> > It is accessible.
>> > It says, "Screenreader users, click here."
>> > Blessings, Joshua
>> >
>> > On 12/13/11, Humberto Avila <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> 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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