[nabs-l] Readers and Testing

[Jamie Principato]

This is more a survey than anything. I'm asking this question so that I will
be better able and more equipped to help someone that means a lot to me.

If you're a student in a math class and the university you attend can't get
you a brailled textbook, and the software the math department uses for
practice exercises and test preparation isn't at all accessible, and your
teacher assigns you a reader but no back-up reader, and your reader doesn't
show up for the entire week before a big exam, possibly due to illness, what
should you do? Should you still go and take the exam on test day even though
you couldn't adequately prepare? Should you refuse to take the test until
you are able to prepare properly? Should you try to write to the professor
who assigned the reader about the situation even though at such a big
university it seems like the professors just don't care about the needs of
one of thousands of students? Please help... :(