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How To Disable Google Sheets Cells Coordinates Reading with ChromeVox Screen Reader feature?


I'm wondering if there's a known way to disable the reading of Google Sheets' Cells Coordinates with ChromeVox Screen reader accessibility Extension?

Currently the reader reads the cells content but also utters each cell's coordinates at the end of each uttereances.

Also, when moving up or down on an empty cell it utters it's coordinates.

Is there a way to disable those previous cases utterances while only keeping ChromeVox to read the cells content of non-empty cells in Gooogle Sheets?

I haven't found any documentation on the accessibilty page and thus couldn't try anything so far.

Any known help or suggestion is greatly appreciated.

The documentation I could gather:

Edit spreadsheets with a screen reader

Use the built-in screen reader

Getting started with Google Sheets using a screen reader

https://google.com/accessible


Solution

  • (Moving my comments to an answer. The OP asked later in the comments how to turn the feature off in NVDA so that is also answered here.)

    Turning off table cell coordinates would be a screen reader feature so chromevox would need an option to turn it off. Both NVDA and JAWS, screen readers that users actually use, have a feature to turn off table coordinates. Chromevox is not a standard screen reader that you should rely on to do accessibility testing. As noted in this survey, Chromevox is used about 0.3% of the time compared to JAWS 53.7% and NVDA 30.7%.

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    For NVDA,

    • Bring up Settings
      • Ins+N to display the NVDA menu
      • then select "Preferences"
      • then "Settings"
    • Navigate to "Document Formatting" in the "Categories" list
    • Navigate to the "Table Information" grouping
    • Uncheck the "Cell coordinates" checkbox

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