[blparent] children and assistive tech

[Kate McEachern]

Jennifer, I am so with you on accessible tech when it comes to monitoring kids online. I monitor my daughters on the PC and on the iPad and anything else they get their hands on. The Kindle is more accessible than it used to be, but I still don't overly like it, but I guess it will get better with time.

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> On Jan 13, 2014, at 2:06 PM, "Jennifer Stewart Jackson" <jennifersjackson at att.net> wrote:
> 
> This may not be the way you meant to go with this subject as your own girls
> are so young, but technology becomes even more complicated when we are
> trying to keep up with and monitor for appropriateness with adolescents.
> 
> I had a disagreement last year with my mother-in-law because I would not let
> her get my son a tablet that was not accessible. I could just not make her
> grasp that I did not think it was appropriate to give him any more on line
> and screen time that I could not supervise. She readily admitted that her
> own son was not reliable to monitor these things, but thought the price
> difference for accessibility meant I should just let her buy what she
> wanted. The kid she wanted to get this for actually loves to go to the
> library and I am still not sure what great deprivation she thought him not
> having a tablet was causing. I know other parents here think it is important
> to monitor the tech our kids access because we have had discussions come up
> on this before. Just to clarify, my mil only asked me about buying the
> tablet because her son told her the kids are only allowed internet ready
> technology that I could monitor. She normally never involves me in her gift
> giving if she can help it at all, and treats all of her three sons' wives
> the same way. Part of the problem with my mil is that one of her other sons
> is one of the anti-Apple folks and he was promoting these tablets for all
> the cousins who could read.
> 
> I also have had trouble in the past making my in-laws understand that their
> fancy Kindles were not accessible if the menus were not accessible. They
> kept trying to show me how they could make it read different pieces of text
> to me. I use they because two of them had two Kindles out at the same time
> trying to make me understand they were accessible. Ironically this was right
> around the time the NFB was involved in the suits against those school
> systems and some other federal program because Kindles were not accessible.
> I also found it a little irritating that I had done hours of research to
> figure out the best way to bridge some tech and communication gaps for my
> deaf son and me, and then my bil wants to do a five minute Google search and
> tell me that all of those programs are available on an android and that he
> was sure the apps were better and cheaper. The exact opposite opinion of all
> the assistive tech experts I spoke to btw. :)
> 
> Jennifer
> 
> 
> day, January 13, 2014 11:37 AM
> To: parents
> Subject: [blparent] children and assistive tech
> 
> Good Monday morning to all of you.
> 
> This is not a plug for my business, nor anything like that but I was
> wondering for those who have blind children if they can speak about their
> experiences with the child as it relates to them learning computers, braille
> and what ever the case may be?
> 
> Lol, I opened up my folder and saw nothing but lock down drills so I thought
> I would start a new thread. smile.
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 1-877-774-7670
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