[nabs-l] Google Drive accessibility

[Bryan Jones]

Hi Merlyn -- I have 4suggestions:
1. When I simply want to read a Google Doc, I use my iPhone or iPad. I've had success reading these documents using the Google Drive App on my IOS devices, though editing such documents under IOS still leaves much to be desired.
2. Review Google's instructions for using various screen readers with Docs. This can be found here: http://www.google.com/accessibility/products/
3. If you haven't already done so, install the Google Drive App for your particular operating system(s). This will allow your device(s) to sync your Google Drive files locally and it adds a folder into your Finder/File Manager which makes it easier to manage and work with these files. The drive App for Mac and Windows can be downloaded from the drive.google.com website. The App for IOS and Android devices can be found in their respective App Stores.
4. As someone else mentioned, consider installing Chrome and the ChromeVox TTS extension. This will mean learning another set of screen reader commands.

HTH,
Bryan

On Aug 14, 2013, at 7:22 PM, Merlyn Hileman <merlyn_hileman at aol.com> wrote:
> 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.