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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> 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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