[Athen] google gmail, google drive accessibility

[Howard Kramer]

Thanks Tonu.

-Howard

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Tonu Mikk <tmikk at umn.edu> wrote:


> I was curious about this too and tried attaching a Google drive document

> with JAWS and Firefox.  I was able to browse the drive documents and hear

> their titles and attach them to the email.  It took a bit of experimenting

> using the Tab key and arrow keys, but it worked.  Google apps work best

> with JAWS and Firefox combination:

> https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6034939?hl=en .

>

> Regarding the second question I would think it is always worth a try to

> use the vendor recommended screenreader/browser combination.

>

> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Howard Kramer <hkramer at ahead.org> wrote:

>

>> (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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