[nabs-l] Google Drive accessibility

[justin williams]

Does chrome work as well as internet explorer? 

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Jones
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 10:15 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Google Drive accessibility

Hi Merlyn -- I have 4suggestions:
1. When I simply want to read a Google Doc, I use my iPhone or iPad. I've
had success reading these documents using the Google Drive App on my IOS
devices, though editing such documents under IOS still leaves much to be
desired.
2. Review Google's instructions for using various screen readers with Docs.
This can be found here: http://www.google.com/accessibility/products/
3. If you haven't already done so, install the Google Drive App for your
particular operating system(s). This will allow your device(s) to sync your
Google Drive files locally and it adds a folder into your Finder/File
Manager which makes it easier to manage and work with these files. The drive
App for Mac and Windows can be downloaded from the drive.google.com website.
The App for IOS and Android devices can be found in their respective App
Stores.
4. As someone else mentioned, consider installing Chrome and the ChromeVox
TTS extension. This will mean learning another set of screen reader
commands.

HTH,
Bryan

On Aug 14, 2013, at 7:22 PM, Merlyn Hileman <merlyn_hileman at aol.com> wrote:
> I am about to start 10th grade. My high school has just started using
Google Docs and Google Drive for file sharing. This means that a teacher can
create a file with assignment instructions using Google Docs, and share it
with his/her students. The problem is I cannot read a file in Google Drive.
I just tried opening a copy of my summer assignment from my teacher's
webpage. It opened in Google Drive, and I was able to read the first few
paragraphs, but not the entire document. Only the first few paragraphs were
displayed on the page. I checked the whole page, and there didn't seem to be
a button to move to the next page. I tried pressing Alt-Control-Z to toggle
screen reader support--nothing happened.
> So my question is--how do you get Google Drive to display the entire
document at once? As I said earlier, I just started using it, so this could
seem like a really basic question. Any other tips you have for using Google
Drive would be helpful. Thanks.


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