[Trainer-Talk] Teaching Google Docs with JAWS

[Mark Nelson]

Hello All:

We at digital Apex, the producers of TrainingWareR, the instructional
curriculum and learning measurement system, just today, released two new
titles into the TrainingWare library.  They are "Teaching Google Docs Using
NVDA" and "teaching Google Drive Using NVDA."  

If this is of interest to those of you interested in this message thread on
the Google Docs subject, please feel free to contact me off-line.


Regards,

Mark Nelson

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Digital Apex LLC, The Pinnacle of Information Access

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-----Original Message-----
From: Trainer-Talk [mailto:trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Wayne Merritt via Trainer-Talk
Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 7:17 AM
To: List for teachers and trainers of adaptive technology
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Cc: Wayne Merritt <wcmerritt at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Trainer-Talk] Teaching Google Docs with JAWS

Hello. Thanks for the offer. I got a similar list of keystrokes from a
coworker. I realize that FireFox works best with Google Docs, however at my
workplace we train primarily on Internet Explorer. If I were an individual
trainer then I would be more likely to use FireFox.

Best,
Wayne

On 1/6/16, Marianne Denning via Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
> I can tell you Google Drive does not work with IE.  You need to use 
> Firefox.  JAWS did a webinar.  I also typed Google Drive and JAWS into 
> Google search and went through a lot of information.  I can also send 
> you a list of commands that you will find very helpful.  Let me know 
> if you want these commands.  They were deeloped by Google.
>
> On 1/6/16, Laine Amoureux via Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org>
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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