[nabs-l] Quick help with Google docs

[Mike Freeman]

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Mike Freeman
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On Mar 15, 2013, at 9:43, Cindy <clb5590 at gmail.com> wrote:

> How is google drive more accessible? Can you create documents within google drive? To me it seemed similar to an empty Dropbox. That is since I couldn't figure out how to even open a document.
> 
> I tried on the web yesterday but if you use JAWS, NVDA, or VoiceOver, the "supported" screen readers, you have to turn off typing feedback, the virtual cursor in all applications, and auto forms mode and forms mode in general. To me, that is too much to do every time I switch windows, so I think that Jordyn is correct in that ChromeVox might be the best bet. You have to download google chrome and then get the chromevox extension from the google chrome store. I got as far as the crappy interactive tutorial. I recommend opening up the list of chromevox keystrokes in another internet browser while attempting the tutorial. That's what I am going to try today. So maybe if I can get the hang of chromevox I'll start trying to use it with docs and calendar. I read 2 different things on different google web pages. One said that chromevox is intended to be a screen reader supplement meant to enhance the accessibility of their products. The page on chromevox in the chrome store said tha
> t this feature is not yet available and that other screen readers should be turned off before accessing google chrome with chromevox. So I'm not sure which is true. I should have attempted to use it in conjunction with jaws first, because without thinking, I put jaws to sleep in chrome and I learned that to disable sleep mode I have to have sighted assistance to click the buttons or I have to reset jaws settings. I looked all around for this answer and finally called tech support. The person I talked to did not seem to really know that much or be happy to assist me with my question, so if anyone knows another way to disable sleep mode, I'd be excited to learn it so I can independently toggle between attempting things with and without JAWS in conjunction with ChromeVox. So that's as far as I got yesterday. If anyone else has any good information about google products please keep it coming! 
> 
> Cindy Bennett
> Legislative Coordinator: National Federation of the Blind of Washington
> Secretary: National Association of Blind Students
> 
> B.A. Psychology: UNC Wilmington
> clb5590 at gmail.com
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Mar 15, 2013, at 9:14 AM, Jordyn Castor <jordyn2493 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hey everyone!
>> Has anyone tried using Chrome with ChromeVox to access Google Docs? I'm wondering if that might work a bit better since both are technologies Google has developed.
>> I haven't played around with this, but I really need to.
>> On 3/15/2013 9:57 AM, Ashley Bramlett wrote:
>>> 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
>>> 
>>>