Noah Tobias Carver 👨🏼‍🦯🇺🇦May 19, 2025

#Accessibility hive mind, I have some questions about #ChromeVox as well as #Chromebook accessibility & #usability in general. I'm working with a #PixelBook that has never been used. ChromeVox is telling me to use commands involving the search key as a modifier, but these seem not to work as any use of the search key invokes #Google #Gemini. What's going on here? Additionally, how are #blind people using #Chromebooks? In what tasks do they excel. In what tasks do they fall short? Any input and/or information would be greatly appreciated.

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Show threadAndré Polykanine
@NoahCarver Once upon a time, the great and mighty @JonathanMosen made a huge review of ChromeVox. Gemini was not even in plans at that stage, but I personally had a huge show-stopper because of a small thing: there was no equivalent of Insert+UpArrow in JAWS or NVDA, like "read the current line or everything-that-is-like-the-current-line-under-your-focus" thing.
May 19, 2025 at 9:39pmWeb
Show threadD.Hamlin.MusicMay 19, 2025
@menelion @NoahCarver @JonathanMosen Semi-related ChromeOS itself is on its last legs as Google is replacing it with Android for desktop within the next year or two.