Downloading from Google Docs

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Tue Apr 2 05:42:57 UTC 2019


Ask them to export it to epub and send that to you.
Regards, Willem


On Mon, 1 Apr 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> For now, no gdrive software exists for linux in graphical user interface
> or command line interface forms let alone any way to share any of
> google's colaborative products.
>
> Maybe some other vendor made something that can be used to access this
> google stuff, but I haven't found it yet.
>
> On Mon, 1 Apr 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 17:45:26
>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Downloading from Google Docs
>>
>> Okay, so someone shared a google doc with me, and I spent like half an
>> hour trying to download the file and accomplished nothing but giving
>> myself a headache.
>>
>> Google Docs is an inaccessible hunk of junk I'd like to hear scoured
>> from the face of the Earth, but since the abomination isn't likely to
>> be going anywhere anytime soon, and it's probably going to only get
>> more common place for people to send me documents via Google Docs than
>> as a sensible e-mail attachment, I'd like to ask my fellow blind Linux
>> Users if they've found anything that makes it easier to go from being
>> sent a link to a Google Doc to opening a file in your text editor of
>> choice and having your screen reader of choice read it?
>>
>> If it matters, I'm using Firefox and I've tried downloading both with
>> Javascript enabled and disabled.
>>
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