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

Wed Dec 14 00:09:53 UTC 2011

You're absolutely right, Ray.  It is a joke that Google pats itself on the 
back for improving accessibility.  A prime example is Google Chrome.  What 
have they done over the past three years to make it screen-reader 
accessible?  Absolutely nothing.  They have become so arrogant and 
inconsiderate that they don't even provide an easy means of contacting them 
with feedback or complaints.  I challenge anyone to find a phone number or 
URL for Google customer relations. Obviously, they don't give a bleep what 
their users think.

Gerald

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Foret Jr" <rforetjr at att.net>
To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List" 
<gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible

> And Google calls itself being accessible and they do this?  And, at the 
> same time, we praise them for being accessible and bitch at Apple?  Hey 
> folks, sorry for the outburst; but, frankly, the hipocracy just doesn't 
> sit well with me.  I mean really.  Google's so-called accessible page is 
> now unsearchable and gives no results; and, now, today, we see this change 
> in the regular preferences page?  Y'all, I am sorry; but, this just is not 
> going to work.  Seperate aint equal.  Since when did we settle for that?
>
>
> Sincerely,
> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
>
> Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
>
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>
> On Dec 13, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
>> 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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