[nabs-l] Myitlab... The never-ending battle

Kevin Wassmer commanderlumpy2003 at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 28 01:46:42 UTC 2009


Call Ron Gardner. He could advacat a reader for  you. I am glad I went to 
SUU. They had a great DRC there. It made the DRC at SLCC look bad.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "clinton waterbury" <clinton.waterbury at gmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
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Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Myitlab... The never-ending battle


> I've tried having them e-mail the assignments but the response I got  was 
> something along the lines of Oh...  We can't get the tests from  myitlab, 
> and the reader thing I also talked to my adviser about and  they for some 
> reason determined that a reader would not be appropriate  for me, and that 
> I should just go to the computer lab at the drc, so  that's when I figured 
> test it with safari and voiceover, and that's  when I got the same results 
> that I did with jaws.
> They then tried putting window-eyes on the computer at school, and I 
> could arrow down the page, but someone would still end up having to  click 
> the buttons to go to the next questions, so now I'm fighting to  get jaws 
> 9 back on the system, and I'm starting to wonder what the  point of it is, 
> as I get the same results described in my initial  message.
> On Jul 27, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Domonique Lawless wrote:
>
>> Hi Clinton,
>> Maybe you can have your teachers e-mail you a word document with the
>> test in it. This way you can independently take your exams. If that
>> doesn't work out then see if the teacher can help you find a reader in
>> that particular department.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Domonique
>>
>> On 7/27/09, clinton waterbury <clinton.waterbury at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello all.
>>> I am having an issue with a website/piece of software called myitlab
>>> that my school uses for submitting assignments and tests.
>>> I can get as far as being able to answer all the questions on a test,
>>> but then the submition issue happens.
>>> I can't even use keystrokes in jaws, window-eyes, and even voiceover
>>> on the mac of all things to click on the finish button on the
>>> webpage.  I have to have someone come over and click my mouse for me
>>> no matter what computer I am on.  The major issues I see with this  are
>>> 1, lack of being able to be independant with my own school work, and
>>> 2, not having a way to have someone come over to the computer and
>>> click the mouse to get it to submit.
>>> Any Thoughts?  All input would be greatly apprieciated.
>>> Thanks.
>>> Clinton.
>>>
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