[gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible

[Gerald Levy]

There is no link for making Google accessible with screen readers on the 
Google home page.  Are you using the classic version of Google?

Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Moore" <don.moore48 at comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible


> When I go to google.com, it's on the first page.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 4:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible
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>
> I could not find any such link anywhere on the Google Search Settings 
> page.
> Where is this link?
>
> Gerald
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don Moore" <don.moore48 at comcast.net>
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 3:39 PM
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>> There's a link for screen reader users that fixes that.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "hawkeye" <hawkeye at cox.net>
>> To: "'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,GUI Talk Mailing List'"
>> <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 3:31 PM
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible
>>
>>
>> In my case, I cannot get rid of the autofill feature of google.  I have 
>> to
>> write the search term in another application and then cut and paste it
>> into
>> the google edit box.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Gerald Levy
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 11:13 AM
>> To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible
>>
>>
>> Hi list.  Has anyone else noticed that you can no longer change your
>> search
>> preferences on the Google Search Settings page?  The radio boxes
>> previously
>> used to select a particular option under each heading seem to have
>> vanished.
>> For instance, under the Google Instant heading, On and Off are listed, 
>> but
>> there are no radio or check boxes to select the option you want.  And
>> under
>> the Number of Search Results Per Page heading, the numbers 10, 20, 30, 
>> 40,
>> 50 and 100 are listed, but there seems to be no way to select the number
>> you
>> want.  And nothing happens when you hit Space or Enter on the Save 
>> button,
>> so there is apparently no way to activate it to save your preferences 
>> like
>> you could before.  I have tried JAWS 9, NVDA and SA to Go with both IE 8
>> and
>> Firefox, but can't select anything on the Search Settings page no matter
>> what screen reader/browser combination I try.  Has Google suddenly made
>> its
>> Search Settings page inaccessible, and is there any work around for this
>> problem?  Google seems to be becoming less and less accessible every day.
>> Maybe the NFB should look into this issue.  Thanks for any feedback.
>>
>> Gerald
>>
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