I usually use Thunderbird to manage my Gmail. I have brought up the
mobile interface on my Nokia cell phone, and it's actually pretty nice,
although you can't get to all of the features. I know next to nothing
about the web interface otherwise though.

I use Google Calendar all of the time, and I find it accessible,
although I guess I know a few of the tricks. I use it with Orca and
Firefox, but I suspect everything I do with Orca can be done and done
easier with JAWS. If you have any specific questions, let me know.

I also use Google Docs quite a bit. I use it with Chrome and ChromeVox.
I don't find it very accessible with Orca, NVDA or JAWS. I also use the
command line interface with Ubuntu to download the documents I need to
spend more time with and then work with them in Libre Office. Again, I
assume you could do this with Windows and MS Office.

On 23/03/12 12:58, Sun Sounds of Arizona wrote:
> Google Mail is marginally accessible, Google Calendar is only partly
> accessible, and Google Docs is virtually useless. However, there are
> some work arounds.
>  
> If you set up your Google Mail and your Google Calendar to work with MS
> Office Outlook, the mail becomes totally easy to use, the calendar is
> also quite useful. To do this, you must set Google mail to work as IMAP.
> This is done through the settings menu in Google. Then, you must down
> load the special Outlook Add-on ap from Google to make Outlook calendar
> sync up with Google calendar. Once you've done this, Outlook works
> pretty well with Google and most functions are accessible.
>  
> Google Docs is another matter. It uses advanced code which isn't
> accessible with any screen reader. Ironically, older versions of JAWS,
> like Version 9, work better than newer versions. If you must use docs
> I'd recommend installing an older version of JAWS to help. The best work
> around though is to have people export there documents or spreadsheets
> to MS Office and provide them to you in that format.
>  
> HTH
> Bill
>  
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> *Subject:* [VICUG-L] Jaws and Google Apps
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> Good Afternoon all:
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> I am looking for some incite on using Jaws and Google Apps.
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> My work is switching us to Google mail and all of its apps.
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> I am currently running Jaws 12.0 and Microsoft XP.2002 and office 2003.
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> Is anyone having luck using Google apps.
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> Email working ok with a little   difficulty adding contacts and groups.
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> Calendar not very good.
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>  Any advice I certainly would appreciate  it.
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> Every thing I have read and  talking to Freedom scientific
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