[jaws-uk] Re: Does Google have a new year resolution?
- From: "Mujtaba Merchant" <mujtabam@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:22:39 +0530
Hello Jonathan,
Thank you for your detailed and informative email. Did it really matter to you
so much where I was writing from? I now have changed my home page to the URL
you specified in your email below. But really feel that Google should have
addressed this by providing a link or some kind of information on their
homepage.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Horniblow (Talking Newspaper Services)
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 10:59 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Does Google have a new year resolution?
So you're posting from India to a UK support group for a particular
screenreader, to rant about Google?
OK, here we go:
Mujtaba Merchant wrote:
> So far I see very less initiatives of making the most popular google sites
> and products accesible.
How about this for starters?
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/09/improved-accessibility-in-google-docs.html
> 1. Google Talk - not at all accessible without 3rd party scripts for the
> popular screen reader JAWS.
Which of the 11 clients listed at
http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html and other jabber clients
compatible with Google Talk have you tried?
> 2. Google Instant - adding to the pain in searching for anything on the web.
> Yes, thank you for providing us a link saying screen reader users click this
> link to disable google instant.
So what are you complaining about? Or just set
https://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en to be your homepage or
bookmark it.
> 3. I have no clue when iGoogle decided to become my homepage? And it is so
> friendly that it decided to stay there forever and I have no idea how to
> remove it...
User error. It happened when you agreed to it. Just set
https://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en to be your homepage.
If you don't know how to change your homepage, you need to get someone
to give you some basic computer training.
> 4. Google Documents gets anyone using a screen reader in to the cyber jungle
> without a compass.
As well as the link above regarding Google Docs and accessibility,
there is also this
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/enhanced-accessibility-in-docs-sites.html
Have you filled in the accessibility feedback form at
https://services.google.com/fb/forms/accessibilityfeedback/ and I see
you've already joined the group
https://groups.google.com/group/accessible/subscribe
> 5. Youtube, a very admired google product - leaves anyone using a screen
> reader caught in a rock concert between their screen readers voice and the
> video sound.
Have you read the Youtube help guide to using Youtube with a screenreader?
http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer9278
> These have been my undying experiences with Google and its products. I really
> mean undying!!
What a pity there are no alternatives to Google. If only someone would
start up another search engine ... that's the problem with the web.
There's only ever 1 of everything, and no choice ...
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