[nabs-l] Quick help with Google docs

[Ashley Bramlett]

last year I tried google docs and it wasn't accessible; guess they have 
tweaked it to work to some extent.
What is google drive? I have a desktop too and if I used google docs, I 
might have to install the drive.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Katie Wang
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 12:41 AM
To: jsoro620 at gmail.com ; National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Quick help with Google docs

Hi all,

I'm in the same boat as Cindy and would really like to use Google Doc
to collaborate with my colleagues. I have Google Drive on my Ipod
Touch, which enables me to read all the uploaded content, but I find
editing to be quite tedious even with a Bluetooth keyboard. I haven't
had any luck with the desktop version of Google Drive - I just
installed it on my PC but JAWS wouldn't even speak the sign-in screen.
Any suggestions for possible work-arounds would be much appreciated!

Katie


On 3/14/13, Joe <jsoro620 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you downloaded the desktop app? It should work like Dropbox and be
> just
> as accessible.
>
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cindy Bennett
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 3:49 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Quick help with Google docs
>
> I'm not sure what is going on exactly. I personally have never experienced
> the problem. It is true though that the "conflicted copy"
> thing is annoying. People cannot work on documents at the same time, and
> when they do, if you do not make sure to transfer all of the new data from
> the conflicted copy to the parent copy, you can end up inadvertently 
> losing
> information.
>
> Also, my lab has always used Google docs, so I would prefer to use the 
> same
> system as my colleagues.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cindy
>
>
> On 3/14/13, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
>> Under what circumstances are files being deleted from your friend's
> dropbox?
>> What app is she using?
>>
>> Mike Freeman
>> sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Mar 14, 2013, at 11:56, Cindy Bennett <clb5590 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> When I get to the Google Drive web page, I notice that there are a
>>> series of buttons such as create, upload, and share. How do you get
>>> these buttons to activate? I pressed enter on the create button and
>>> JAWS said "loading" and then "load complete," but I can't find where
>>> the document is to write.
>>>
>>> I am really interested in exploring accessibility, and I know there
>>> are a couple of workarounds. But I am in a situation where one of my
>>> colleagues is having files oddly deleted from her Dropbox and is
>>> incredibly frustrated and wants to switch to Google docs right now.
>>> So I am trying to get some quick answers to investigate preliminary
>>> accessibility.
>>>
>>> I know that with Google Calendar, I have an incredibly difficult time
>>> pressing the buttons to create and share calendars. I know there is a
>>> Google accessibility web page, but their advice really hasn't worked
>>> for me. I know that there is a series of JAWS commands such as
>>> rooting the jaws cursor to the pc cursor and left mouse clicking, and
>>> that really doesn't work for me although maybe I am doing it
>>> incorrectly.
>>>
>>> The Google docs web page seems to have some similarities in a
>>> negative way to the web interface of Google Calendar.
>>>
>>> Does anyone use Google docs on their iPhone? I have a blue tooth
>>> keyboard so although no optimal, I could do that.
>>>
>>> Does anyone use Google docs on their mac?
>>>
>>> I have a duel system meaning that I use bootcamp. I really haven't
>>> found VoiceOver to be as efficient, and I really don't want to have
>>> to switch sides every time I need to work on a Google doc, but I am
>>> curious.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your input, and sorry for all of the details. I always
>>> appreciate the help I receive from this list.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cindy Bennett
>>> Secretary: National Association of Blind Students Legislative
>>> Coordinator: National Federation of the Blind of Washington
>>>
>>> B.A. Psychology, UNC Wilmington
>>> clb5590 at gmail.com
>>>
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>
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