I mostly use Google Calendar with Orca in Linux and Firefox, but in case
it helps with JAWS 11, here's what I find to be the most effective.
First, I click on the link at the top that says something like "Click
here for ARIA calendar". Next, I click on the Agenda button. Now I can
use the tab key or the down arrow key to go through my calendar in a
list. The recent updates to Google Calendar only show a few days, so I
need to click on the buttons for earlier or later days. I also will use
the mouse pointer to click on a day in the calendar.
Once I get to an event I want to do something with, I'll use the right
mouse button to expand it and then the right mouse button to click on
Edit event or sometimes delete. Once I'm editing an event, I find
everything is pretty straight forward.
Another thing which changed recently is that when I save an event, I now
have to go to the bottom of the page to click on the send button. It
used to make that the default button after clicking on the save button,
but not any more.
I'll also use the Lightning plug in for Firefox to do some manipulation
of my Google Calendar, but I frequently run into problems with this, so
I will use Lightning to review my calendar and occasionally work with my
personal calendar, but for my company's calendar, I pretty much use the
web interface to manipulate events.
There's also an Australian company who came out with an accessible web
interface to Google Calendar, which seems to work pretty well. I don't
use it though, since it only works with your primary Google Calendar, so
I couldn't get it to work with my company's Google Calendar, but they
say they may support secondary Google Calendars in the future. The link
is at http://www.povidi.com/mag/.
There's also the mobile interface to Google Calendar at
http://www.google.com/calendar/m, but there's a lot you can't do with
this interface.
On 27/07/11 16:00, Sun Sounds of Arizona wrote:
> 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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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:35 PM
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> Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Google Docs
>
> 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
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dorene Cornwell
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 3:51 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> 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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