[nabs-l] Google Docs accessibility

Arielle Silverman arielle71 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 04:14:49 UTC 2012


Hi Katie and all,
I haven't tried Google Docs recently, but someone told me that it is
supposedly accessible with Firefox but not with Internet Explorer.
Have you tried it with Firefox?
Arielle

On 3/5/12, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> yeah, how misleading to say its accessible and then it is not.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katie Wang
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 4:53 PM
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nabs-l] Google Docs accessibility
>
> Hi all,
>
> I wrote to the list to inquire about your experiences of using Google
> Docs with JAWS a while ago, and the consensus at the time was that the
> service is largely inaccessible. I have been able to get around this
> problem by using Dropbox on certain occasions, but people by and large
> prefer to use Google Docs and I often have to ask for edits to be
> added on my behalf or for the latest version of the document to be
> emailed to me. However, I recently came across
> www.google.com/accessibility, which claims that many of the Google
> products we typically consider inaccessible, such as Docs and
> Calendar, are compatible with JAWS 12 or newer. In response to this
> seemingly encouraging announcement, I gave Google Docs another try,
> but when I opened any shared spreadsheet or document JAWS says
> "Application Mode On" and does not read anything else. Pressing
> Control plus Slash brought up a list of keyboard navigation shortcuts
> mentioned in the accessibility page above, but none of those works.
>
> I'm somewhat baffled by this situation since I'm using the latest
> version of JAWS and Internet Explorer. Am I missing something, or is
> Google making inaccurate claims about the accessibility of their
> products? Has anyone here had any success with using Google Docs? Any
> thoughts would be much appreciated!
>
> Katie
>
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