[blParent] question for the group involving procare

[Nate Trela]

Yes - my daughter's daycare here in Colorado uses it and we run into
the same issues with the screening questions at check-in every day.
The director also reached out and got a similar response. She has just
plugged in the answers to the check-in questions for me and I sign on
the screen and turn voiceover back on. I'm not sure why they made the
switch from their old check-in system. ​

Beyond that, itt has been fairly usable. There's an unlabeled button
and menu, but all other functions I use - check out (with the need to
turn off VO when I sign the screen), reading activity updates and
messaging work with VO. We don't use the payment or attendance
calendar so I don't know how well those work.

On 10/22/21, Star Gazer via BlParent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> My kid’s preschool uses an app called procare to sign your kid in and to
> sign them out.
> It doesn’t work with voiceover and when the preschool director called
> procare they said “We don’t do any kind of special voice or speech”. Boy was
> the director angry and with good reason.
>
> It sounds like Procare is the app that the licensed preschools are using in
> Maryland, it wasn’t the director’s choice to use this app.
>
> NFB has asked me to find out if any other blind parents are having issues
> with this app.
>
> To people who wonder why this matters, the app is used by the health
> department to make sure the preschool is behaving itself in terms of health
> safety.
> Our workaround is that my husband fills out a paper copy for the schools
> logs.  It’s viable but not ideal and as the preschool director pointed out
> “You (meaning me) can’t be the only mom who needs this app to work”.
>
>
> So does anybody have any experience with this app, and if so what has that
> experience been? I’m trying to build a case to force these guys to make
> their app accessible, or maybe to find out how to effectively use the app
> with voiceover.
> The app has a geofence so I have to use my Iphone, I can’t sign my kid in or
> out unless I’m at the school.
>
> NFB says there is strength in numbers, so I’m hoping others have had issues
> with this app. If not, that doesn’t mean the issues don’t exist, some of you
> guys may prefer the hard copy solution, some of you may not have kids in
> preschool, I’m hoping I can get this fixed regardless of how many of us
> there out there.
>
> Rebecca Pickrell
>
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