[humanser] organizing information, more work-related questions
Christina Moore
christina.moore16 at houghton.edu
Sun Apr 24 02:26:28 UTC 2016
Hey Lisa!
Maybe a VoiceNote would help. You can search for them on Google.
You can get one with a QWERTY keyboard and without a braille
display I believe.
This would allow you to safely document information on a device
no one else can a¢cess.
It also has a database manager that you can use to create your
own database of contacts, forms Etc.
In regards to the Pen-Friend someone mentioned earlier that could
be very useful to you. You make audio labels with it so you
could put those on the outside of folders, binders Etc. You can
also change the audio on the label at any time.
Hope this helps.
God Bless,
Christina
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From: Lisa Irving via Humanser <humanser at nfbnet.org
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Date sent: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:42:08 -0700
Subject: Re: [humanser] organizing information, more work-related
questions
I wish I could say I am proficient enough to justify the request
to Department of rehab but I'm being perfectly honest I am not
that proficient in Braille
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On Apr 23, 2016, at 2:11 PM, Jan Bailey via Humanser
<humanser at nfbnet.org> wrote:
If you had a notetaker with a Braille keyboard, no one could
access your
information. If you had Braille and speech on it, then you
could decide when
to use Braille and when to use speech. Could you get help from
rehab for
this type of device?
Jan
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Subject: Re: [humanser] organizing information, more
work-related questions
Yasmin,
You hit the nail on the head; confidentiality is the reason for
ridgid
standards. The question is, how do I as a blind professional
use alternative
methods and still maintain the employer's work standards?
You're right about using a cell phone. Also, there's no way to
organize and
format information when using the cell phone.
Last night I watched 60 Minutes. There was a segment dedicated
to hacking
into smart devices.
Jon a different note, there was also a segment about mentally
ill prisoners
and the horrific abuses that goes on in prisons; especially
Ryker's Island.
From,
Lisa
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All I said was to get the forms filled out, and have the
individuals who
want further contact to come tell her so she can write it down
in the notes
app on the phone.
How would you then propose to do so?
Do you have a suggestion Yasmin?
Justin
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Hi everyone,
I believe it has to do with confidentiality. Also, if one is
not allowed to
take the laptop to a community event, how one will use a cell
phone. Unless
one has unlimited data plan and other such resources, I would
not use my
cell phone.
Technology is helpful, but do not depend on it. People still
like to use
paper and pen, that is why, the organization wants the forms to
be
completed.
Yasmin Reyazuddin
Aging & Disability Services
Montgomery County Government
Department of Health & Human Services
401 Hungerford Drive (3rd floor)
Rockville MD 20850
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240-777-1495 (fax)
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Just curious, what is the rationale for not allowing her thumb
drives? Could
you save stuff on an external drive?
Ericka Short
"What is right is not always popular; what is popular is not
always right."
from my iPhone
On Apr 21, 2016, at 8:43 PM, Lisa Irving via Humanser
<humanser at nfbnet.org> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm pretty excited to share that my employer purchased JAWS.
I'm a bit
nervous that, for the most part, I've been left out of the loop.
I've
done my best to provide resources and support. I hope to tell
you
sometime next week that all is well with JAWS on the workplace
desktop.
I've learned a little bit more about some of my job
responsibilities
and, of course, that brings up additional questions. Here are
my
questions. I apologize if they're not clear.
At this point I will not have the option to take a company
laptop into
the community and I'm not supposed to use my personal laptop for
work
purposes.
This poses challenges at a number of levels. One concern I have
has to
do with paperwork that I pass out to participants at the end of
a
meeting. The group is asked to fill out the form. I'm supposed
to
collect the completed forms; take them back to the office; look
over
the form to see if any participant has requested information or
phone
contact. I'm also supposed to do something with tallying
information
I'm supposed to photocopy each form and put it into a particular
hard-copy file.. I'm not too clear about that task. I don't
know how
to pull all of this together and do my job without a laptop.
Ideas?
I know that JD and others shared how they organize resources.
I'm
still a little lost. I've got a bag of print brochures; flyers
and
other papers that I've collected at a couple of resource fairs
and at
Earth Day. I understand that I can use the Pearl Camera to scan
each
item. I don't know how to organize the information from that
point. I
don't know how I'm supposed to retrieve a resource without the
use of
a
laptop. Ideas?
Last week I was tasked with finding faith-based organizations.
I
worked from home; used the internet and tried editing some of
the
lists I
found.
Subsequently while at work, and without internet access, I used
my
cell phone to get phone numbers for some of the places; there's
over
500 places of worship listed. At work I've called some of these
places
to introduce faith-based leaders and their members to our
organization and our approach to living with a mental health
challenge; wellness education and other tools as defined by the
participant, including meaning and purpose/spirituality.
Some of these organizations asked to have information emailed.
I've
got their email information and it's not well organized. For
example,
I have a list of places of faith that begins with the letter
"A".
There's probably 30 places. I've started to create headings;
that's
tedious and maybe not the most effective way to list these
places.
I've been inserting phone numbers and email addresses into a
word
document. There's got to be a more effective way to do all of
this.
What
is it?
I've been permitted to use my laptop and work from home for the
past
few weeks. Now I have saved work emails; the faith-based
project and a
few resources. I don't know how to finish the faith-based
project if I
can't transfer it from my laptop to the company's desktop. (We
can't
use thumb drives).
Thanks so much to JD, Carli and so many of you for doing a
little
hand-holding and sharing tips-n-tricks.
From,
Lisa Irving
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