Hi,

Well I also can report that you can use the google drive desktop client with
window-eyes with no problems.  So if you want to upload files using windows
explorer you can just put them in your google  drive folder and the desktop
client will syk what is there in that folder with your google drive. 

Hth 

 

 

From: Marc Solomon [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 9:30 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: using googledrive

 

Hi John,

 

Over the past few months, I have been investigating the accessibility of
Google Drive (www.google.com/drive) with Window-Eyes.  I am happy to report
that many of the key features available in this web based solution are
accessible.  Here is a quick summary of the tasks that you can accomplish
with Google Drive:

 

..        Navigate Google Drive

..        Download a doc, file, or folder

..        Upload a doc, file, or folder

..        Share a doc, file, or folder

..        Organize files into folders

 

The first important tip is that you will need to turn off Browse Mode when
interacting with Google Drive.  Once you disable Browse Mode, you can take
advantage of the built in and extensive keyboard support available in Google
Drive.  Here is a link to the Google support article that lists the most
important keyboard shortcuts:
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2563044?hl=en.  You will want to
review this list and get to know all of the commands in order to become an
efficient user of Google Drive.

 

Here are a few examples of how you might use Google Drive.  Press G followed
by F to focus the folders tree view.  Use your arrow keys to select a
folder.  Press Enter on the selected folder to display its contents in the
items view.  Press G followed by L to focus the items view which behaves
much like a list view.  Use your up and down arrow keys to navigate the
list.  Press X to select or deselect an item.  Window-Eyes won't initially
say checked but refocusing the item will make Window-Eyes announce the
selected status.  Press A to open the item's action menu where you can find
many different helpful commands including Download, Move To and Share.  If
you want to upload an item to Google Drive, use the shortcut key U, and then
down arrow to Files and press Enter.  You will be presented with a pop-up
dialog that you can use to browse for and select the file to upload from
your local computer.  

 

I also wanted to clarify that the Google web based programs used to create
and edit files (e.g. Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides) are not
fully accessible with Window-Eyes yet so editing tasks would need to be done
with accessible programs on your PC like Microsoft Office.  We do hope to
support these web based applications in the future.

 

There is much more to Google Drive but hopefully this message will give you
confidence to go and try to use it with Window-Eyes.  Good luck and if you
need any more help, feel free to contact me off list.

 

Best Regards,

Marc

 

 

From: "john riehl" <[email protected]>

Subject: using googledrive

Date: Wed, Jul 31, 2013 6:46:17 pm

 

I'm on a working group that is using googledrive to store its documents. I

can log into googledrive but can't access any of the documents. Does anyone

have any suggestions re how to access stuff on google-drive?

 

Thanks.

 

John riehl


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