[Trainer-Talk] Teaching Google Docs with JAWS

[Wayne Merritt]

Thanks Laine for the tips. I did do the search and found several pages
of interest that you mentioned. For those interested, I have pasted
the links below.
FS webinar: Google Docs with JAWS and MaGic:
http://www.freedomscientific.com/Services/TrainingAndCertification/WebinarDetail/F0112
Google Apps user guide to accessibility:
https://support.google.com/a/answer/1631886?hl=en
Edit documents with a screen reader:
https://support.google.com/docs/answer/1632201?hl=en
Getting started in Google Drive with a screen reader:
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6034939?hl=en

Some of these pages may have duplicate information/links but it all
looked very helpful. I'm going to pass this onto my student but wanted
to share here as well.

Sincerely,
Wayne Merritt

On 1/6/16, Laine Amoureux <laine.amoureux at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been teaching Google docs, using Mozilla  Firefox and NVDA, rather
> than Internet explorer and jaws. I chose this combination, first because
> Google suggested it, and second there is much less cognitive demand on a
> consumer using NVDA, and only needing to toggle between brows mode and focus
> mode, compared to using jaws and having to switch between forms mode,
> virtual PC mode, and enabling and disabling quick navigation keys.
> That said however, I did see that freedom scientific released a webinar that
> might be of some assistance to you.
> Understanding when to navigate the interface using virtual PC cursor, or by
> disabling the quick navigation keys will be the most important factor, in my
> opinion, in utilizing the interface. Google docs, unless I am attempting to
> navigate to the controls on the Google bar, I never enabled browse mode and
> NVDA, meaning if I were using jaws I would never use the virtual PC cursor
> mode, except when I want to access the Google apps, Google notifications or
> Google account links at the top of the page.
> Check out the getting started in Google Docs with the screen reader
> documentation provided by Google. Don't have the direct link at the moment,
> or the time to go search for it :-) but if you Google getting started in
> Google Docs with a screen reader it should pop up just fine.
>
>
>
>
>
> Laine Amoureux
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jan 6, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Wayne Merritt via Trainer-Talk
>> <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings. I will soon be teaching a student how to use Google Docs. I
>> haven't used it in several years. Does anyone know of support
>> documentation for using Docs with JAWS 16/17? Also, can anyone give
>> any tips/tricks for how to navigate and activate items in Google Docs?
>> We will be using Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 Professional, for
>> what it's worth.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Wayne Merritt
>>
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