Hi Harry,
I would say there are many good things about Google. It's a lot easier to view and sync documents across devices than it is with Microsoft. Well that's been the case for me. Their accessibility with JAWS, NVDA, and TalkBack is improving. My only reservation is the lack of good Braille access in android. I think they will address this since they need to make changes so the BARD mobile app for Android will support reading Braille books which it doesn't yet do.
I agree with Dennis that letting google do everything for you is a security risk. One security feature I like about Chrome is that a user can type in a phone number in the search field and often find out if it is spam.
Dan
Dan
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Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] thanks to Dennis's help, I was able to unlock the number!!!
Harry the only part of what you said that I won't agree with is having the company do it for you. Let me explain. That could be a security risk. However I agree Google should have phone numbers. There is a google support desk for people with disabilities were you aware of that? Your welcome for the help. It took me not even 5 minutes of looking. I put in something like how to transfer my google voice number to cell phone and found it right away.
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Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 5:30 PM
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Subject: [VICUG-L] thanks to Dennis's help, I was able to unlock the number!!!
Hi all,
Thanks to Dennis, I was given a web page, about how to unlock my number, now, to get it ported over to my cell phone, and I sure appreciate him finding it!
I don't have a problem with Google's lack of accessibility, that's not what the problem is, and I should have said that, in my email.
Because even sighted people get very angry at Google, I can introduce a bunch of them to you if you want.
I got a friend, who's been in computers since 1980, and it takes him an hour and a half to get anything done on the Google web site, it's like a continual loop over there, he just kept going around and around in a loop, to the same pages, over and over again.
If I ran a company, (which I don't), but if I did, no matter how big the company were to get, I would say to my employees, "you will answer every phone call, and we will have phone numbers people can call, to ask any question, if they get into a problem on the web site, and, you will take all the time each person needs on every call. We will not be unreachable, by any human being, and, if the person is having a problem doing something in their account, you, do it for them!"
However, I don't run the company.
You don't want to know what my sighted friend said to me when he could not contact Google, it's not typeable here.
But thanks again to Dennis for the help!
Harry
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