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

Wed Dec 14 23:32:59 UTC 2011

google isn't identical in all locations around the World.  The reason for 
that is it's a distributed system and the code on the actual part of that 
distributed system is a copy made at some time earlier from a google 
mirror.  That may be why I got the message about screen reader users and 
acted upon it when it came up for the second connect to the google.com 
site.  I was surprised that it would come up at all in the first place 
since I still don't know what instant google is.On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, 
hawkeye wrote:

> I have had sighted assistance on this.  This is no line to check for
> screenreaders.  There once was but there isn't now.  Been to the start up
> page, been to the homesite, there is no line for screenreaders. 
> 
> -----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 2:29 PM
> To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Google Search Settings Page No Longer Accessible
> 
> 
> 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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