[Trainer-Talk] Navigating Google slides with a screen reader

[Jennifer Soltis]

Thanks, Greg and Reggie. This question originally came from me. I'm helping
someone with a Google slides presentation that is 50% images and the
accessibility of the alt text seems erratic. The presentation is shared
with the public in view-only mode and I'm not sure if that's part of the
problem.

After I added alt text, everything is working fine with JAWS, whether I am
logged in with editing privileges or looking at the public view-only link.
When using NVDA, it only works if I have editing privileges. If I look at
it in view-only, everything reads as "blank." I believe I have the virtual
cursor turned off (NVDA + space) but NVDA did not voice that the virtual
cursor was off, it just beeped at me. NVDA is not my strength, so this
could be user error. My friend reports that only some of the alt text reads
when using VoiceOver.

Has anyone successfully accessed a read-only Google Slides presentation
with NVDA or VoiceOver before? Here is the presentation in question
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DoCekbg9g5hx-7SnLTUqd4IPxqjx-Y5UgvIH62qaK8g/edit?usp=sharing>
if anyone is interested in looking at it. Slides 3 and 26 have alt text
added so far.

Thanks,
Jennifer

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 1:41 PM Reginald George <adapt at kc.rr.com> wrote:

> Thanks Greg much appreciated.
> On Feb 18, 2021, at 1:06 PM, Greg Aikens via Trainer-Talk <
> trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Google has some good support pages but a quick summary.
>
> As with all the Google apps, make sure virtual PC is turned off. After
> that, it feels a lot like PowerPoint with JAWS. Use tab to move from object
> to object, page up and page down to move from slide to slide, press Enter
> on an object to edit it and escape to exit edit mode.
>
> Greg Aikens, M.Ed
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [Trainer-Talk] Navigating Google slides with a screen reader
>
> I have a TVI that is asking how to do this. The presentation is online and
> from the library and the slides do have text but it is read-only and they
> aren’t sure what you have to do to navigate this with jaws so that the
> student can read the slides. Also any resources would be appreciated.
>
> Reg
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