[nabs-l] Google Drive accessibility

Cindy Bennett clb5590 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 15 00:14:54 UTC 2013


Hi,

How do you download it to your computer?

The other day, I attempted to download a spreadsheet onto my computer
as an excel file so I could more easily access it, and I was not able,
with my knowledge, to get into the file menu  and to download as of
the google spreadsheet.

Cindy

On 8/14/13, Chun Chao <zerone1683 at gmail.com> wrote:
> One feature you can try is to download a copy of the document from Google
> Drive onto your computer.
> I find Google Drive fairly well to do with but feel that the functionality
> of Docs is still yet to be desired.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Merlyn Hileman
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:23 PM
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nabs-l] Google Drive accessibility
>
> Hello,
>
> I am about to start 10th grade. My high school has just started using
> Google
> Docs and Google Drive for file sharing. This means that a teacher can
> create
> a file with assignment instructions using Google Docs, and share it with
> his/her students. The problem is I cannot read a file in Google Drive. I
> just tried opening a copy of my summer assignment from my teacher's
> webpage.
> It opened in Google Drive, and I was able to read the first few paragraphs,
> but not the entire document.
> Only the first few paragraphs were displayed on the page. I checked the
> whole page, and there didn't seem to be a button to move to the next page.
> I
> tried pressing Alt-Control-Z to toggle screen reader support--nothing
> happened.
> So my question is--how do you get Google Drive to display the entire
> document at once? As I said earlier, I just started using it, so this could
> seem like a really basic question. Any other tips you have for using Google
> Drive would be helpful. Thanks.
>
> Merlyn Hileman
>
>
>
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-- 
Cindy Bennett
Secretary: National Association of Blind Students

B.A. Psychology, UNC Wilmington
clb5590 at gmail.com




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