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

Tue Dec 13 23:52:12 UTC 2011

The big problem for me with this alternative Google site is that the search 
results page has no headings, making navigation somewhat cumbersome.

Gerald

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible

> http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html can help out with the number of
> search results.  Bad side of that page is no google ads pop up.On Tue, 13
> Dec 2011, Gerald Levy wrote:
>
>>
>> This is all well and good if all you want to do is turn off Google 
>> Instant.
>> But what if you want to change the number of search results per page from 
>> the
>> default of 10 to 20 or 50?  Or specify that each search result opens in a 
>> new
>> browser window?  Apparently, there is no longer any way to accomplish 
>> this.
>>
>> Gerald
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" 
>> <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
>> To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List"
>> <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:10 PM
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible
>>
>>
>> > There's only just some screen readers google recognizes.  nvda at least
>> > brought up a message to turn off instant google if you're a screen
>> > reader user, and after I connected to the google search page for the
>> > first time I had to hit up arrow once then enter to activate it.  Hope
>> > this helps.
>> >
>> > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, Don Moore wrote:
>> >
>> > > When I go to google.com, it's on the first page.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Levy" 
>> > > <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
>> > > To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing 
>> > > List"
>> > > <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 4:03 PM
>> > > Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer 
>> > > Accessible
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I could not find any such link anywhere on the Google Search Settings
>> > > page.
>> > > Where is this link?
>> > >
>> > > Gerald
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Moore" 
>> > > <don.moore48 at comcast.net>
>> > > To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing 
>> > > List"
>> > > <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 3:39 PM
>> > > Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer 
>> > > Accessible
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > > 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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