Jaws with Google Docs: Getting Started

Are you new to Google Docs? Want to learn more about how you can write, edit, and share documents from anywhere? In this webinar we introduce you to Google Docs, describe its layout, demonstrate its powerful features, and provide useful shortcuts to improve your user experience.
Instructor: Elizabeth Whitaker
Instructor’s Title: Educational Trainer
Instructor’s Affiliation: Vispero
Instructor’s email: [e-mail]
Primary Core or ECC Area: Assistive Technology
Target Audience: Teachers, Parents, Students, Assistive Technology Specialists
Pre-requisite knowledge: Fundamental understanding of the screen reader JAWS for Windows.
Lesson Plan Goal: Provide participants with an introduction to using JAWS with Google Docs.
Learning Objectives: The participant will learn the orientation and layout of a Google Doc. The participant will learn 4 helpful commands to facilitate the navigation of a Google Doc. The participant will learn the steps to share a Google Doc for the purposes of viewing and collaborating.
The participant will learn how to enable screen reader and braille support in a Google Doc. The participant will be provided helpful keyboard commands and useful vocabulary specific to Google Docs.
Materials Needed: No

[@connorstandingready6312]

“This is not meant for you to follow along with at home.”
Me following along at home lol

[@wajahatali4563]

Thank you so much for this great webinar to provide the information I needed to work on docs. I am partially blind and learning content writing so I was not able to use the Google docs with the screen reader , but your webinar helped me to know the useful commands I needed to know. Thanks
One thing I want to mention that Google docs is not accessible with nVDA and we cannot read or write on docs with NVDA.

[@callieconnect8062]

Thanks so much for posting this excellent, informative webinar. I listened to it a couple of times before I actually sat down at my computer to do the work. I ran into a hiccup and emailed Vispero on a Friday night, and surprisingly Elizabeth emailed me back a couple of hours later. Great customer support and a great job by Elizabeth on this webinar.

[@AphOrg]

That's wonderful to hear. Thanks for sharing!

[@abbynormall22]

Thank you for this!!! Do you have any suggestions on collaborative project management tools like trello or monday .com things like that, but that work well with JAWS?

[@AphOrg]

Great question! For specifcs on JAWS we recommend you contact Freedom Scientific. You can find their contact info on their site: bit.ly/3gskVtZ