[Athen] Google Suite Accessibility

[Eckelberry, Robin via athen-list]

Hello ATHEN!

Does anyone in this group use Google Docs, Sheets, and/or Slides quite a bit? I'm testing and trying to create best practices for each, but for certain things, I feel a bit stuck.

For example, in Google Sheets, for tabular data, it seems that most of the "Verbalize to screen reader" commands within the Accessibility menu do not work, such as "verbalize on column changes" or "verbalize on row changes," with or without the data being formatted as a table. When trying to read the headers for a data cell, the best that I can come up with is using the shortcut to verbalize the entire column or entire row and then silencing after the header is read. And that is only understandable if there is no content in the sheet before where the headers actually begin. I'm also finding that resizing an image cannot be done via keyboard, and adding alt text to an image when placed within a cell cannot be done via keyboard.

If anyone has experience who I could maybe talk to a bit more about any of these Google products, I would appreciate it!

Thank you,
Robin


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