Google Docs Screen Reader: Creating and Opening Documents

Ricky: Hello, my name is Ricky Enger and today we're going to get started with Google Docs by creating and opening documents. We're using the Chrome browser along with NVDA as our screen reader, but things are going to be pretty similar no matter which browser and screen reader we're using. So, we've got our shiny new Google account that we created in the first workshop, and it's finally time to do some cool stuff with it. We've got our Chrome browser open, so we'll use our Alt+D shortcut to go to the address bar.

Screen Reader: Toolbar, address and search bar, and it has auto complete Control+L address in search bar.

Ricky: And now, we'll type docs.google.com and press enter.

Screen Reader: Docs.google.com selected. Screen reader support enabled. Document busy blank. No text documents yet. Click + to create a new document.

Ricky: All right, then. Since our account is brand new, we don't have any files here yet. We'll change that soon enough. And when we do, they're going to be right here on this page.

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