[roundtable] Links to Google Accessibility information
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Folks,
One of the issues we in the blind Foundation are becoming more and more
involved with is the accessibility/usability of the online applications
hosted by Google.
Services such as Google Docs, Google Drive and others are becoming widely
used in schools and in the work-place. We’re even seeing them make headway
in the home user market.
They are replacing, in some cases, the long-established Office applications
which we all know well, not least because of their “in the cloud” nature,
but also because of their collaborative capabilities: several people at
once can work on a single document at the same time and their changes get
saved automatically and immediately. You can imagine the attraction that has
to teachers in classroom situations, or bosses in businesses. You can also
readily imagine that they have always posed a major access problem for
screen-readers, and while this has improved markedly in recent months, it is
still a significant challenge.
One of the aspects of my work at present is to work on this, with the
schools and employers in New Zealand who are adopting this platform, but
also with Google themselves so that we can try to influence them in some
way. In New Zealand, Google is basically a sales operation with no real
representation from the engineers or the developers. I am planning to visit
the team in Sydney at some stage early next year, and I’m hoping to visit
Google’s accessibility team (yes they have one, and a very active one) at
their head office on my way back from the CSUN conference next March.
I am guessing that some of your organisations may be noticing this rapid
take-up of Google services, so I’m pasting below some links which may be
of assistance in getting your heads around what they do provide in terms
of access. Ultimately, a trans-Tasman approach on all of this will be
helpful. We might even think of getting them along to a Round Table
conference!
Google Drive Blog
<http://googledrive.blogspot.co.nz/> http://googledrive.blogspot.co.nz/
Use a screen reader - Drive Help
<https://support.google.com/drive/topic/1631585>
https://support.google.com/drive/topic/1631585
Google Docs accessibility - Docs editors Help
<https://support.google.com/docs/topic/6048194>
https://support.google.com/docs/topic/6048194
Google Forms accessibility - Docs editors Help
<https://support.google.com/docs/topic/6048717>
https://support.google.com/docs/topic/6048717
Google Sheets accessibility - Docs editors Help
<https://support.google.com/docs/topic/6052233>
https://support.google.com/docs/topic/6052233
Google Slides accessibility - Docs editors Help
<https://support.google.com/docs/topic/6050892>
https://support.google.com/docs/topic/6050892
Get started in Google Drawings with a screen reader - Docs editors Help
<https://support.google.com/docs/answer/6058689>
https://support.google.com/docs/answer/6058689
Neil Jarvis
ED Strategic Relations & Accessibility
Blind Foundation
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