[Ncabs] Google Hangouts

[Shickeytha Chandler via Ncabs]

Travis,

Thank you for answering the questions. The university where I will be
attending grad school also uses gmail/google. You make a good point
that schools that use this will likely use other Google services. So
with that in mind it is probably a good thing that this discussion has
prompted me to explore Google services more, regardless of what we end
up doing for the conference calls. I am still stuck on creating my
GooglePlus profile. I go to the date of birth menu to select my
response, and I click enter. Then JAWS says "button menu expanded" and
I try to arrow down, but instead of going to the next month, JAWS
moves to the next element on the page, just like it would do if I were
arrowing through the page and not in a menu/combo box. I have tried
several things to resolve this, both in Internet Explorer and Mozilla
Firefox, with no success. Not sure what is going on. Perhaps one of
the "glitches" JAWS has from time to time.

Again thanks for forwarding the tutorials. You did a good job on them,
and I'm sure it is helpful information for all of us.

Shickeytha

On 5/17/14, Travis Sherrill via Ncabs <ncabs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello All:
>
> Let me answer some of the questions raised on the list today:
>
> As far as the mobile applications for Google Hangouts, I have not used them
> much at all.  You have to download the Google+ application and then
> download
> the Hangouts application.  Again, I haven't used it that much.
>
> I created this tutorial as a staff development training for the Davidson
> College library.  All of the employees are sighted so I didn't want to give
> them key commands when they are merely used to clicking a mouse.  In saying
> that, everything is fully accessible.  The menus are easily readable.  I'm
> using JAWS and Mozille Firefox.
>
> When creating your Google+ account, for example, when creating your account
> and selecting let's say your date of birth, you have to go down to the
> combo
> box or the drop down menu and hit the enter key.  This will allow you to
> arrow down to your particular date of birth.
>
> In terms of how popular Google Hangouts is in an academic landscape, it all
> depends.  If a particular school (UNCG) is the school I'm attending, is
> using Gmail as the email service, then schools are using Hangouts as
> opposed
> to some other video conferencing tools because it is free and they already
> have access to it through the Gmail email service.
>
> I'm willing to answer further questions.
>
> Thanks
>
> Travis
>
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