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Devin Prater :blind:May 16, 2024

Chromebooks already have great screen reading capabilities built in...

Awww Google, how cute of you. Great? Nope. Next time, remember. Nothing about us, **without us**. ChromeVox has barely been updated in *years*, just like VoiceOver for Mac, and Narrator. ChromeVox barely has any options for fine-tuning verbosity, keyboard commands, pronunciation, and some keyboard commands, like Search + Control + A for accessibility actions, aren't even well-documented. I should know. I had to use an Acer Spin 713 for a good 3 months as my primary laptop. So kindly stop talking, then ask, then act before you speak further.

"Updated keyboard shortcuts and first-letters navigation in Google Drive"...

First letters navigation? Come on. Any blind person can *tell* that this wasn't written by anyone who uses these technologies.

And nowhere in this article is anything new for ChromeVox. See? This is the kind of, frankly, bullshit that I hate on GAAD. Just shut your mouth and listen for once.

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/global-accessibility-awareness-day-2024/

#Accessibility #blind #google #ChromeOS #Chromebook #ChromeVox #GAAD

How we’re building accessibility into our Chromebooks around the world

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Matt Campbell May 16, 2024

@pixelate I mostly agree with you, but:

> First letters navigation? Come on. Any blind person can *tell* that this wasn't written by anyone who uses these technologies.

Here I think you're reading way too much into a minor grammatical slip, possibly by a non-native English speaker. Sure, this post was written on behalf of a megacorp, but it was still written by a fallible human, and we should be reasonable about minor mistakes like that.