[Trainer-Talk] Teaching Google Docs with JAWS

[Nancy Coffman]

Our agency also uses Internet Explorer for work purposes.  It is behind
enough firewalls that I am not concerned about it there.  At home, I have
gravitated toward FireFox and it is what I recommend to my clients.  I don't
think Internet Explorer will be well supported for long.  I haven't spent
much time with JAWS in Google Chrome but I am also planning to do that.  The
security of Internet Explorer concerns me most

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Wayne Merritt via Trainer-Talk
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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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