Thanks to everyone for their responses.  I've gotten more information than I 
could have hoped for!!

This is being done on a client's computer, not my own, and I don't have access 
to it at the moment.  But my memory is half decent on good days, so . . .

We are using the Google Voice plug-in, not Hangouts.  On my own computer I have 
the Voice plug-in under Firefox for one GV number and the Hangouts 
App/extension under Chrome for another.  On the client's machine I believe it's 
Voice and Firefox.

I have already reported this issue as best I can to both Freedom Scientific and 
Google.  I am hoping that Google will take the accessibility issue seriously 
and look into this.

In the meantime I think the work around we'll end up using is having her Google 
Voice number ring her cell number on her iPhone.  I'll probably also try to 
assign some sort of dedicated ringtone to those calls, but I've got to figure 
out the best way to do that, so that she knows whether the call is coming in 
directly to her actual cell number or being forwarded from GV.

It will probably not be until after the holidays that we next get together and 
that I can do this, but her internship won't start until that time, either.  I 
try to avoid working "at deadline" for precisely these reasons.  Having done 
this sort of work for some years now I have long ago been disabused of the 
notion that JAWS, or any other assistive software, is likely going to behave in 
the way I want it to, particularly with new or obscure features.  Given the 
pace of change in web browsers and general web coding it's a miracle that the 
assistive technology companies can keep up with it at all.  I just wonder how 
long it will be until stuff becomes stable with Windows 10!

Thanks Again,

Brian

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