[GUI-Talk] More about the New Google News Layout

[David Goldfield]

Hi.

Here are my experiences using Google News as of a minute ago. I 
performed a search using two different browsers, Firefox 68 and Chrome 
76, using JAWS 2019 as my screen reader.

Currently, I am receiving the older interface with each article 
beginning at its own heading. However, I have no doubt that your 
experiences are true as site developers have the ability to roll out a 
new experience to just a small percentage of users. I think that you are 
correct to be concerned and that you should continue reporting your 
experiences to Google, particularly publicly on social media such as 
Twitter. It's also important to let them know why this newer experience 
is problematic for users of screen readers. Thanks for alerting us.


On 8/1/2019 4:09 PM, Jen via GUI-Talk wrote:
> So here is more information about the new Google News layout. Google changed
> the layout of the tab when you search for something and press Enter on
> "News." On July 13, Google changed the layout so instead of each article
> being a heading, each story is now in a card-like format. Apparently, each
> publisher has a visual icon on the card that shows up. The new layout
> changes the way JAWS interprets the news page so it now reads the article
> title as non-link text and the publisher's name as the visited link. This
> layout makes it so 1, you have to scroll a lot more and 2, JAWS can't
> correctly tell you what link you visited. I sent Google feedback about this
> twice through Google Chrome. I really hope Google changes their layout back.
> For those of you who use Google News, have you seen the new layout, and what
> is your opinion of it?
>
>
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