[nabs-l] Using Google Docs

[Melissa Hambleton]

With my experience, it is not accessible. The only thing that I have had to 
view and fill out are tables and it requires me to have a sighted person 
help me fill out the fields. I subscribe to a technology for the blind 
mailing list and I have asked about Google docs early this year and some 
folks got back to me saying that it was not accessible for them but, I don't 
know what they were trying to access through Google docs. I have an App for 
Google docs and it doesn't make things any better, if anything it makes it 
worse to try and read anything for me. What ever Google does when creating 
Google docs has some people in the blind community puzzled with how they 
have it set up because it just doesn't work well at all for the ones who use 
screen readers I believe.

Melissa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth Mohnke" <lizmohnke at hotmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 9:00 PM
Subject: [nabs-l] Using Google Docs


> Hello List,
>
> I know there has been some discussion before on this list about the 
> accessibility of Google Docks. However, I cannot recall how accessible 
> this file sharing tool is for those of us who are blind.
> My college sent me one of my textbooks using Google Docs, and before I 
> tell them that it is inaccessible, I thought I would seek out a second 
> opinion on this list.
>
> So, for those of you who are more tech savvy than me, is there a way to 
> access files on Google Docs, and if so, how would I go about doing it? The 
> files I am trying to access are PDF files if that makes a difference. I 
> have tried using both Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox without any 
> success.
> If anyone has any advice on using Google Docs, I would greatly appreciate 
> hearing from you.
>
> Thanks,
> Elizabeth
>
>
>
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