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

[David Sexton]

This worked well for me using NVDA and Chrome.

1. Click on the link

2. Ensure NVDA says 'screen reader mode enabled'

A. If not, press ctrl+alt+z to enable it

3. Use up and down arrows to navigate between slides

A. If nvda says, 'blank blank' press NVDA+space to enable focus mode

B. if up and down still don't change slides, press escape a few times

4. Navigate between slides with up and down arrow, tab to each object on 
a slide to hear them, but this might not be the best way to view the 
presentation as a cohesive document

5. Enable html view in three  ways

a. add /htmlpresent to the end of the URL

B. press ctrl+alt+shift+p

C. Press alt+slash and type 'html' and press enter

6. Navigate between slides in html view with 'd'

On 2/19/2021 6:21 PM, Jennifer Soltis via Trainer-Talk wrote:
> 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-----
>> From: Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of
>> Reginald George via Trainer-Talk
>> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 4:00 PM
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>> Cc: Reginald George <adapt at kc.rr.com>
>> 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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