Google Chrome Screen Reader Accessibility

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We, as screen reader users, feel that Google's new and innovative Web browser, Google Chrome, still has a long way to go in accessibility. We are just asking for the developers of this flourishing browser to consider the needs of a growing audience who is interested in using this browser. We should have the choice to use this browser, and should not be shut out because of conditions we cannot control.

Web page text is not readable, and nothing is spoken with various screen access programs such as JAWS, Window-eyes, NVDA, and others. Also, the menus need help in order to be accessible to most windows screen readers.

On Linux, the situation is worse. Orca, the GNOME based screen reader, cannot even access this application due to the way the interface is written.

In 2010, having inaccessible applications is simply appalling and a Web browser coming from a great company such as google should not be subjected to that horrible label of 'inaccessible'. Inaccessible programs translates to blind and visually impaired individuals being shut out from using this application. That is not acceptable.

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  • Alex Hiironen
  • kendell clark
    • Comments
    • hopefully this will get them to respond, seeing as nothing else seems to.
  • susan L. gerhart
    • Comments
    • come on, google, you can do it!
  • Duncan J Cowan
  • Megan Sannar
    • Comments
    • MAKE GOOGLE CHROME ACCESSABLE!!!!
  • Dennis Lembree
  • Michael Galpin
  • Devin Prater
  • Alfredo Castaneda
  • Tera Kirk
  • serrebi
    • Comments
    • Google is halarious.
  • MatthewDyer
  • Ka Yat Li
  • Jeremy Bock
    • Comments
    • Everyone should be able to enjoy the speed and versatility of Google Chrome!
  • Don Coco
  • Rachel Cowan
  • Aaron M
  • Denis Boudreau
    • Comments
    • I fully support this petition. Accessibility is not an option.
  • Mike Reiser
  • Ravi Paul
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  • Carlos Patcher
    • Comments
    • Please add accessibility to this product.
  • Jeff Sykes
  • Rudi Hьttner
  • Mohammed, AlShammiri
  • Matthew Janusauskas
    • Comments
    • Google Wave also remains completely inaccessible to screen reader users.
  • Nickie Coby
  • Summer Ludwig
    • Comments
    • Google continues to be an industry leader in many things, it is such a shame that accessibility isn't one of them.
  • Christine Arnold
  • Trenton Matthews
  • Mark Senk
    • Comments
    • Google can do better. Apple computers and iPhones can speak. Fix the browser and get to work on Android phones.
  • Lashelle Hammett
    • Comments
    • ASAP, so many could be using it and benefiting from it!
  • Peter Ganza
  • yvonne thomson
  • Pratik Patel
  • Jennison Asuncion
  • char@jtfassociates.com
    • Comments
    • Please help make the web accessible to all! ty :-)
  • Sean Goggin
  • Astrid Johnson
  • Sandra Mello
    • Comments
    • Accessibility is also usability.
  • Mike Kent
  • David Carlson
    • Comments
    • Barrier free access to the Internet shouldn't be a secondary requirement for 21st Century Technology. To do so is to perpetuate the marginalization of those who would benefit from this, and realistic, that is anyone and everyone as disability does not discriminate.
  • Stephen Scanlon
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  • Burt Henry
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    • I am a big Google fan, and have seen google aps go from kind of like accessible to almost not accessible and then more and more accessible in the last couple of years. With the rapid advances Google has made in many areas of the on-line experience: pretty good! I feel that gmail is the best web-based mail service for accessibility that has ever existed, and even the standard gmail site is mostly accessible, but there are still areas needing tweaks, and feel that you use the worst audio captcha type in the biz. I suggest you form an accessibility committee to address this and other issues that may slip through the cracks. I hav wanted to try chrome since it first came out. (I tried, but of course it wasn't at all accessible)I understand that the technical issues are perhaps great, but please continue and increase your efforts to give us all the chance to try this new and revolutionary browser, and to maintain, and improve access to existing and new Google aps features.
  • J Fisher
  • Nicki Muir
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  • Dave Cushing
  • James M Thomas
  • Brian Gaff
    • Comments
    • It sends the wrong messages about what Google think of blind people. We are second class citizens.