[blindlaw] Exam$ software and law school exams

Sat Sep 25 13:17:07 UTC 2010

I had a two day bar exam and was granted time and a half as an
accommodation, but I did not actually use all of the time provided because I
had an excellent reader.

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-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of ray wayne
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 10:50 PM
To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Exam$ software and law school exams

Back in my day we had two twelve hour days, three if we were taking too
states at a time, or California. And we started at 6:00 in the morning and
went until 6:00 at night. And that's the way it was, and we liked it! We
loved it! Smile! 
Grumpy Old Blind Man 
PS: based on and old Saturday Night Live sketch. 

----- Original Message -----
From: Blaine Deutscher <b.m.deutscher at sasktel.net>
To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Date: Thursday, Sep 23, 2010 8:57:13
Subject: Re: [bllaw] Exam$ software and law school exams

>
>
> I'm not sure what it's like in the sattes but isn't the bar a two day
> process? do blind people get time and a half to write the exam or how does

> that work? It's something to look into now as I'm always trying to make 
> lives better for future students so if I speak with the law school in 
> Saskatchewan they might have some blind people before me that have gone 
> through and whatever system they used worked. I know some people will say 
> "blind people before you went through without technology so what did they 
> do?" My response to that is yes they did but now that technology is there 
> and we are using it more exams should be easier to take. I'm waiting for
the 
> day that a blind person can keep up with his classmates with the four 
> courses or whatever it takes to be done the same time that they are.
> 
> Blaine
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kate Carroll" <carroll.kathryn.e at gmail.com>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 6:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [bllaw] Exam$ software and law school exams
> 
> 
> Thank you Aser. I was not aware that I might be going through the 
> exact same thing with the Bar.
> 
> Kate
> 
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Aser Tolentino
> <agtolentino at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > My school and the CA bar use ExamSoft. While I've heard talk of 
> > greater accessibility now, at the time I started law school three 
> > years ago it was not possible to run a screen reader alongside the 
> > software; I confirmed this with the sample test and by speaking to 
> > the school's IT department. My advice would be to request the school 
> > forgo your use of the software as a testing accommodation. The issue 
> > will come up again when you take the bar and could be more 
> > contentious then.
> >
> > Best,
> > Aser
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Kate Carroll
> > <carroll.kathryn.e at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > Good evening everyone!
> > >
> > > I am looking for some advice concerning law school exams. If 
> > > anyone has
> > any
> > > thoughts on my question, i would greatly appreciate hearing them.
> > >
> > > I am in my first year of law school. I currently use a Dell 
> > > Latitutde
> > with
> > > Windows 7, and ZoomText for magnification and reading. I will have 
> > > to
> > > use
> > > the software Exambled for my upcoming exams. I have heard that this 
> > > software
> > > will likely prevent ZoomText (and possibly the built-in Windows
> > > magnification program) from working if I attempt to use them during an
> > > exam.
> > > I havent actually tested the problem with the tech guys at the school
> > > because I need to get a Zoomtext license and right now don't have
> > Zoomtext
> > > on my laptop.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have experience with this Exambled software, and is a 
> > > user of ZoomText? What did you do to get around this (alleged)  
> > > problem? Any
> > ideas,
> > > again, are welcome.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Kate
> > >
> > > --
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> -- 
> Kathryn CARROLL
> St. John's University College of Law 2013
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