My organization works extensively with Google Docs too, and it drives me
nuts. I find to work effectively with Calendar, I am forced to use my
legacy version of JAWS 9. JAWS 11 doesn't seem to want to see the buttons,
or when it does, will not activate them using either the mouse or virtual
cursors. If you are using Calendar with JAWS11, how have you set it?
Bill
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This is great news! I work in an organization which uses Google Docs
extensively, and I find it to be a real struggle. If the document is simple
enough, and I take a look at it while it's pretty stable then I can review
it on line. Other than that, I either have the corresponding documents sent
to me or use the command line interface to grab the document as a .doc or
.odt file and work with it off line. Note I'm mostly reviewing documents and
not actually generating a lot of Google Docs content myself. I'm still able
to publish most of what I need to through the company's wiki. I'd love to
hear any tricks or techniques people are using to work with Google Docs,
especially with Linux and Orca.
Note that I have found Google Calendar is workable. It took me a while to
learn different tricks and techniques to do what I need to, and although I
wouldn't say I'm proficient at it, I can get done everything I need to in
Google Calendar.
Does anyone know if there's a way to work more closely with Google on
improving the accessibility to Google Docs? I'd love the opportunity to see
what they're doing and provide some feedback. Note that I can work in
Windows with JAWS or NVDA and Linux with Orca, with Linux and Orca being my
preferred environment.
On 27/07/11 14:53, Pratik Patel wrote:
> Google is making a concerted effort over the next two months to make
> Google Docs more accessible to screen reader users. More announcements
> should be made by September.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pratik
>
>
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dorene Cornwell
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 3:51 PM
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> Subject: [VICUG-L] Google Docs
>
> Hi All
>
> Is anyone working in an organization where people are successfully
> using Google Docs with JAWS. So far, everything I amhearing requires
> lots of workarounds with different JAWS cursors but one user I know is
> using Sky Drive basically out of the box much more simply.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Experiences?
>
> Dorene Cornwell
> Seattle WA
>
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