[nabs-l] google docs
Chris Nusbaum
dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 01:35:00 UTC 2012
Great ideas, Katie! By the way, where do I download Firefox?
Chris Nusbaum
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----- Original Message -----
From: Katie Wang <bunnykatie6 at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
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sent: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:51:09 -0400
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] google docs
Hi Ashley,
Google Docs is a popular file-sharing tool tied to your Google
account. Once you create a file on Google Docs (Word documents,
Excel
spreadsheets, or PowerPoint presentations), you can share it with
a
group of people by their email addresses, who can then edit or
comment
on your work. You are right that it is currently inaccessible
in
Internet Explorer, although I have heard that it now works with
JAWS
in Firefox. I'm also aware that Google is working on improving
the
accessibility of their various products, although I'm not sure
how
much progress they have made so far.
For the purpose of your class, it might be worthwhile for you to
check
if Google Docs indeed works in Firefox, especially considering
that
the browser is free and fairly easy to install. If that route
does not
work, you may need to talk to your instructor/classmates to work
out
an alternative solution. What do you mostly use Google Docs for
in
your class? If the work mostly involves peer editing in a small
group
(which sounds like what you are describing), perhaps you could
talk to
your fellow editing group members to see if you could all email
around
your assignments and add comments directly in Microsoft Word. A
similar, but perfectly accessible, alternative to Google Docs is
Dropbox, a desktop client that also allows you to share files
with
others, so that might be something worth considering as well.
Hope
this helps!
Katie
On 3/26/12, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
Hi all,
Well, I have a hybrid class for english; that means half online
work and
half in class meetings.
What exactly is google docs and how does it work?
Do you attach documents to it or something?
I realize it is inaccessible to us. How do you get around that?
Do you write
assignments in word and/or email?
I ask because I encountered google docs in our online class when
we were
supposed to comment on introductions for articles.
Obviously, I couldnt read the comments. Jaws only read names
of classmates,
not text.
So Ill have to have a sighted reader and hand in my comments
on paper.
And most importantly, has either consumer advocacy group done
anything about
this lack of accessibility? I fail to see how blind students
take online
classes with so much inaccesssibility.
PDFS, flash based content, multi media presentations and um now
google docs
are just a few accessibility challenges in the online class
experience.
Ashley
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