[nabs-l] Using Google Docs

Ashley Bramlett bookwormahb at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 29 02:20:01 UTC 2012


Hi,
yep google docs wasn't accessible; I couldn't read those files either

-----Original Message----- 
From: Melissa Hambleton
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 12:23 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Using Google Docs

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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