[nabs-l] Google Docs accessibility

[Katie Wang]

Hi Arielle,
That's a good point. I actually have never used Firefox before but may
try it with Google Docs at some point. It is annoying that the
accessibility feature does not work in all browsers, but at least
Google has taken a step in the right direction. Thanks for the tip!
Katie


On 3/5/12, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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