[nabs-l] access to gmail

[Jewel S.]

Instead of hitting the down arrow, when I hit shift + H to get to the
last sender (last heading), I then hit N for non-link text, and that
almost always sends me to the beginning of the e-mail, except when it
doesn't *grin* Usually, the only reason it wouldn't send me to the
beginning of the e-mail is if the beginning is a link or graphic,
which is not very common.

Also, because GMail uses conversational mode, it stacks the e-mails.
Thus, any e-mail that has the same subject will be placed with the
others of that subject. This took a bit of time for me to get used to,
but if you find the link "Expand All" within the conversation, it will
show all the e-mails in that conversation, and each sender's name will
be a heading. So, you can use shift + H to get to the last sender,
then repeat to get to the message before that, and so on until you get
to the Subject heading.

GMail has a large number of pages with information about using their
e-mail system with a screenreader on GMail Help:

Using GMail with a Screenreader
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=90559

Using the Basic HTML mode with a screenreader
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146375

Among the browser-based email clients, I have found GMail to be the
most accessible, but not all features of Google are as accessible,
including Google Wave, which I don't think is usable by a
screenreader-user.

On 7/28/10, Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ashley!
> I've used gmail for years.  If you are a JAWS user when in your gmail
> account I would suggest go to list of links and hit "b" which will go
> to "Basic Html".  to make it your default go to "set Basic html as
> default".  As for headdings, when you open a message I would suggest
> hit "shift + h".  the last headding will be your message.  It won't go
> directly to your message, but you use down arrow and it will get to
> your message.
> Hope thiss helps!
> Justin
>
> On 7/28/10, Ashley  Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Yes after some searching I found the  HTML setting.  IF I click to make it
>> default, does it save that setting and won't change to standard unless I
>> change it?  Also, lots of links along the side of the page.  What commands
>> are best to get to the text of the email?  Would the heading command, H,
>> work?  I don't know if there's always a heading at the top of a message.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Ashley
>>
>>
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