Re: Google accessible search gone
- From: "Steve Jacobson" <steve.jacobson@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:30:52 -0500
A couple of other things to try is to open a link to an article one wants to
read in a new window usually by pressing
SHIFT ENTER on the link. When you close the new window you will almost always
still be at that same link in the
original window. Another approach if you end up at the top is to jump to
visited links. That should get one back to the
link they entered pretty quickly. In Window-Eyes one just presses the letter
v. There are likely other approaches that
might get one past on-clicks as well, depending upon which screen reader one
uses.
Best regards,
Steve Jacobson
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:44:57 -0500, Michael Taboada \(AI5HF\) wrote:
>You probably have instant search on, click on the link near the top of the
>page that says "for screen reader users,
click here to turn off google instant".
>Hth,
>-Michael.
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>From: RicksPlace
>Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 4:07 AM
>To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Google accessible search gone
>Hi Jacob: I agree. I have been playing with the new Google page and not only
>is it a pain to heading or tab around
in, the heading does get you to headings but they don't seem to be as clear as
in the accessible version,andthe
summary with all the links and, or, onclicks can be slow to try and go through
and tabbing gets messy as well. There
was a feature in the Accessible page where if I typed a word incorrectly I
could click on a popup that asked Did You
Mean and I could check the spelling if I made a typo.
>But, it is what it is. I just have found using Google now much slower and less
>efficient. I am trying to do some
searches that would have given me headings and summaruies that were quick, easy
to read and relevant to my
search in the Accessible page. In the new page I get headings that don't seem
to have any identifying diferentiation,
the summaries often are unclear and all have links or onclicks and much of the
content seems not to be relevant to my
search. Oh ya, after reading an article I get upt to the top of page and have
to heading all the way down to the last
item read, tabbing would not work well - too many hits. Anyway, it is what it
is.
>I looked at one yahoo search and it might be a better solution, I'm not sure
>yet since I haven't had time to play with it
or other search engines.
>See you Later Jacob:
>PS: I hit the letter "c" from the top of page to get to the search box, or the
>search button just below it and that helps.
Oh ya, I changed the contents of the Search Box and found some other words
added into it, perhaps they were
suggestions but I had to remove them to modify the search, another little pain.
>Rick USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jacob Kruger
> To: ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 12:18 AM
> Subject: Google accessible search gone
> The google accessible search interface, which was here:
> http://labs.google.com/accessible/
> is now gone/inactive, and when looking for reasoning, I found the following
> blog related to google's labs
development/experiments, so seems will just have to go back to using the normal
google search for now...:
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-wood-behind-fewer-arrows.html
> Pity, since the accessible search interface was quite a bit cleaner, and
> also ranked search results a bit differently
based on the 'cleanliness' of their content, but anyway.
> Jacob Kruger
> Blind Biker
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