[nabs-l] FW: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible

Joshua Lester jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
Tue Dec 13 23:47:50 UTC 2011


It is accessible.
It says, "Screenreader users, click here."
Blessings, Joshua

On 12/13/11, Humberto Avila <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am bringing this to your attention as it looks like this change occurred
> just today. Please read on. This company is facing another possible lawsuit.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Gerald Levy
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 11:13 AM
> To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible
>
>
> Hi list.  Has anyone else noticed that you can no longer change your search
> preferences on the Google Search Settings page?  The radio boxes previously
> used to select a particular option under each heading seem to have vanished.
> For instance, under the Google Instant heading, On and Off are listed, but
> there are no radio or check boxes to select the option you want.  And under
> the Number of Search Results Per Page heading, the numbers 10, 20, 30, 40,
> 50 and 100 are listed, but there seems to be no way to select the number you
> want.  And nothing happens when you hit Space or Enter on the Save button,
> so there is apparently no way to activate it to save your preferences like
> you could before.  I have tried JAWS 9, NVDA and SA to Go with both IE 8 and
> Firefox, but can't select anything on the Search Settings page no matter
> what screen reader/browser combination I try.  Has Google suddenly made its
> Search Settings page inaccessible, and is there any work around for this
> problem?  Google seems to be becoming less and less accessible every day.
> Maybe the NFB should look into this issue.  Thanks for any feedback.
>
> Gerald
>
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