I too would download the documents and spreadsheets from Google Drive to 
work with in Libre Office, but just doing that would have left me out of 
the meetings where we'd collaborate together on a document. I felt that 
to do my job, I had to learn Chrome and Chromevox so I could work with 
Google Docs. I found that being competitive at work was sufficient 
motivation for me to learn a new access tool.


On 11/12/2013 02:45 PM, Bill Pasco wrote:
> As Google Docs is very inaccessible using any browser than Chrome, and any
> screen reader than Vox, I consider it inaccessible. It's true as someone
> here put it, it may not be bad if you are willing to learn still another
> interface, and willing to stay with it as Google plays around and
> experiments, but most of us who work don't have that kind of time. When a
> colleague of mine uses Google docs, I ask him or her to convert it to MS
> Office, and send it as an attachment.
>
>
>
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> Hi Listers,
>
> Are anybody using Chromebooks, Google Docs, Google Drive? Curious how
> accessible they are for blind and low vision users?
> Thanks!
> Ed
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