[humanser] Excess ability question regarding JavaScript and electronic medical record

Wed Oct 22 22:44:44 UTC 2014

Afternoon, Beth,

         So, then, bring in your reader/scribe. After all, employer 
wants to see how you have taken the hassles associated with doing the 
job and appreciate them enough not to play up how you can't do the 
job but how this job represents something so important to you that 
you actually went to the trouble to get a reader/scribe to assist in 
the filling out of forms. Whatever it is, if it's a type rider, and 
reader. Please do not cite to your employer an inaccessible machine 
as a reason for not doing something because, last I checked, they had 
plenty of sighted people. And, so strongly do I believe in 
interpersonal demonstrations of action's being what, ultimately, 
can  lower cages in which we are often confined.
You may see that it's really all about interdependence. who cares, 
anyway, if you happen to be the one pressing the buttons upon a 
supposed accessible computer. While working with a reader, your brain 
has to know what it's doing. So, if you think about it, working with 
a reader demonstrates better a grasp of the subject matter. Ya 
dig?04:38 AM 10/6/2014, Beth Lpc via humanser wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Any suggestions for reasonable accommodations would be helpful. My 
>biggest fear is that they will think I cannot do the job because we 
>cannot make the software accessible. And my fear is also there is no 
>technology to make it accessible. It Is old software. Thus, I think 
>I will need a reader and Scribe or  some other reasonable 
>accommodationto do my job.
>
>
>
>Thanks,
>BethSent from my iPhone
>
> > On Oct 5, 2014, at 11:23 PM, Dr. Mary Chappell <mtc5 at cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > Beth,
> > My email has been down so, I am just seeing this. I would like to 
> share with
> > you my most recent experiences with electronic medical records and what my
> > employer agreed to do to allow me to complete my documentation and access
> > records. I am currently going through training with the new scripting, JAWS
> > and Kurzweil. It is pretty incredible to access the many forms that are
> > completed daily for patient interaction and, while I waited nearly 4 years
> > to attain this accessibility, I trust that with time and attention, I will
> > be able to document in the fullest manner. If I can be of assistance please
> > let me know and I can let you know how the "reasonable accommodations" came
> > into being.
> >
> > Genuinely,
> > Mary Tatum Chappell, Psy. D.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: humanser [mailto:humanser-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David
> > Andrews via humanser
> > Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2014 9:41 PM
> > To: Bet LPC; Human Services Division Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [humanser] Excess ability question regarding JavaScript and
> > electronic medical record
> >
> > There are not black and white answers to some of the questions you
> > ask.  For example does X work with javascript.  It will depend on how
> > the javascript was written, possibly on the framework used for
> > development etc.  And ... the problems could be with java, not javascript.
> >
> > All you can do is test with different screen readers.   This is what
> > assistive technology specialists do.
> >
> > I have heard that some people are able to read screens using the new
> > version of the KNFB-Reader on the iPhone, but I would guess that this
> > works for occasional access, I doubt it would be good enough, or easy
> > enough for regular and constant use.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > At 06:00 PM 10/2/2014, you wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >> I have recently accepted a job offer at a community mental health
> >> agency. I went down today to test jaws with their electronic medical
> >> system. It turns out that their system is written in Java script. I
> >> believe cobalt and Java were also used. The problem is the jaws will
> >> read none of the screens on their electronic medical record system.
> >> My question: is there any screen reading software out there that
> >> will work with JavaScript? My other option is a reasonable
> >> accommodation is to ask for a reader scribe to help with reading
> >> electronic charts and documentation. Along the same lines, I know
> >> that sharp desk will extract text from images. Is there any kind of
> >> software that might be able to extract the text from the JavaScript
> >> screen or any kind of iPhone app I can read the screen with. I know
> >> I'll still need help documenting the least I could try to read the
> >> charts  that way.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Any help would be appreciated.
> >> Thank you,
> >> Beth Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >         David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
> > E-Mail:  dandrews at visi.com or david.andrews at nfbnet.org
> >
> >
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