[nabs-l] Quick help with Google docs

Sat Mar 16 02:19:21 UTC 2013

Ok, really interesting discovery.

I enabled sleep mode with JAWS while in Chrome using ChromeVox, and
then I attempted to figure out how to disable sleep mode to see if
JAWS can in fact work in conjunction with ChromeVox.

If you press insert 6, you can view the settings for all of the
applications on your computer. However, Chrome did not appear in this
list of applications.

Turns out that when you enable sleep mode in Chrome, it enables it in
Firefox too. Somehow Chrome is using those settings. So Chrome will
not show up as an application. The good thing about this is that it is
easy to toggle sleep mode with JAWS when using Chrome. The bad news is
that if you use Firefox and Chrome at the same time, you will have to
toggle this setting each time you switch windows. So I don't really
recommend that.

I opened Firefox yesterday and thought the page was frozen because
JAWS didn't talk at all. But now I know that it is really because when
I put JAWS to sleep in Chrome, it went to sleep in Firefox as well.

Bizarre.

Cindy

On 3/15/13, Cindy Bennett <clb5590 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ChromeVox is a screen reader created by google meant to be used in
> google chrome to access google products with voice output.
>
> Cindy
>
> On 3/15/13, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> what is chromevox?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jordyn Castor
>> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 12:14 PM
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Quick help with Google docs
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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-- 
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