Hi Duane,

Can you help them with their assignments using Chromevox on either of their Chromebooks? Chromevox is a pretty decent screen reader. If you’re more comfortable with JAWS and Windows, you can always easily convert Google Docs, sheets, or slides to MS Office equivalents under the file menu in Chrome.
 
Brian Sargee

> On Sep 24, 2018, at 9:51 AM, Duane Farrar <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>  Hi All,
> 
> My two children are now in middle school and I am one overwhelmed blind parent, just so you know where I'm coming from!
> 
> I am currently using a Windows 7 desktop PC (I was unable to upgrade it to Windows 10 for reasons never fully explained by the Windows 10 upgrade installation program.) I am using JAWS version 17. Unfortunately, I let my most recent SMA lapse and now the web site says it will cost me $750 to upgrade to the newest version of JAWS and renew my SMA. I use Internet Explorer as my browser.
> 
> Yesterday, I did purchase a new Windows 10 laptop that is still in the box and I'll have to decide whether to upgrade JAWS or switch to NVDA. (BTW, will I be able to boot up my new laptop using Narrator without any sighted assistance? Any tips on that would also be welcome in a separate message.)
> 
> That all said...
> 
> The school my children attend uses Google Classroom for their classwork and homework assignments, although it is not fully implemented yet. (While in school, each child has the use of a Chrome Book computer.) I was given the link to a temporary Google Sheets spreadsheet document for their weekly and future homework assignments. I pulled up the document in my IE browser but found it practically impossible to navigate using any familiar JAWS keystrokes so I could not make any coherent sense of the document. In addition, my JAWS software spontaneously unloaded and reloaded itself a couple of times while I was trying to access this Google spreadsheet document.
> 
> For both my Windows 7 desktop and Windows 10 laptop, which combination of screen reader and browser programs would be the best for accessing Google Classroom and Google Docs? Any advice on how to navigate these Google products  is greatly appreciated. I expect I am facing some steep learning curves in the near future.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Duane Farrar
> 
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