[Athen] google gmail, google drive accessibility

[Howard Kramer]

Thanks Russell.

-Howard

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Russell Solowoniuk <SolowoniukR at macewan.ca>
wrote:


> Hi Howard,

>

> I just tried attaching a file to a GMail message (using the web-based

> GMail) with Jaws 16 in Firefox 41, and IE 11. In both cases I was able to

> navigate to the Google Drive folder and choose a file... Jaws read the

> filenames in Google Drive just fine.

>

> Hope this helps.

>

> Russell

>

> Russell Solowoniuk

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> >>> Howard Kramer <hkramer at ahead.org> 10/28/2015 2:28 PM >>>

> (Please excuse the cross-posts)

>

> Does anyone know if google gmail and drive are yet accessible to

> screenreaders such as JAWS and NVDA? We recently had a student report

> working with a team of students where it was required to attached documents

> from Google drive via email. This student was using JAWS with Google gmail.

> Reportedly, she could open up the gmail dialogue to attach a document but

> could not read any document names from drive to select the appropriate

> file. Has anyone else encountered this issue?

>

> One other - perhaps larger - question: what do you do if an application

> such as Gmail with Google Drive only works with a screenreader/browser

> combination a student AT user does not regularly use. Where is the line -

> or is there a point - where you require the student to use a different

> technology?

>

> Thanks in advance.

>

> -Howard

>

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