Ed and Chris. Thank you so much for this information! I'll be sure to check it out.
God bless. :) Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670, extension 3 work email: matt...@blindaccesstraining.com Personal email: matt.dierck...@me.com > On Jan 23, 2015, at 17:41, Edward Green <ergreen1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi matt, > > You can just about use VO and Safari to compose and read Google Docs. There > are some fairly annoying issues (at least on my system), E.G. when you > navigate by whatever textual unit, you get the sound you get when you try to > navigate passed the top or bottom of a web page. By default, you’ll also > have each character spoken regardless of your key echo setting. You can > bizarrely stop this by turning on braille support in Google Docs, you don’t > need to have a braille display. > > Generally speaking, for whichever Google App you want to use with Safari, you > should turn off quick nav, disregard most of the quick keys you’re used to > using to navigate HTML documents in Safari and use Google shortcuts. This > also applies under Windows if you ever use that environment. > > Cheers, > > Ed >> On 23 Jan 2015, at 21:24, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> >> wrote: >> >> Last I heard Google favors using their own Chrome browser with ChromeVox >> with Google docs. Of course that means, essentially, using two screen >> readers to get stuff done which I consider a non-starter. >> >> CB >> >> On 1/23/15 4:06 PM, Matthew Dierckens wrote: >>> Does anyone know about OS X? My student was asking me about it today. >>> >>> God bless. :) >>> Matthew Dierckens >>> Certified Assistive Technology Specialist >>> Macintosh Trainer >>> Blind Access Training >>> www.blindaccesstraining.com <http://www.blindaccesstraining.com/> >>> 1-877-774-7670, extension 3 >>> work email: >>> matt...@blindaccesstraining.com <mailto:matt...@blindaccesstraining.com> >>> Personal email: >>> matt.dierck...@me.com <mailto:matt.dierck...@me.com> >>>> On Jan 23, 2015, at 16:02, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >>>> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> While I don't use them, Google did give a mention to improved >>>> accessibility for VO users on iOS in their announcements. >>>> >>>> http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2015/01/updated-mobile-apps.html >>>> <http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2015/01/updated-mobile-apps.html> >>>> >>>> From the article: >>>> >>>> "Making everything more accessible >>>> If you’re blind or have low vision, we have improved support and >>>> performance for TalkBack on Android and VoiceOver on iOS to create, edit, >>>> and share files in Docs, Sheets and Slides. 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