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

[Jess]

Kevin.
I disagree with you. I attended SLCC for almost two years and I thought
their Disability Resource Center was wonderful. On the flip side though I
attended the Community College of Vermont and I wasn't really impressed with
their disability services office. Also, I was spoiled by going to a decent
sized community college the first time I went to college. And, I had another
opportunity to attend another decent sized community college when I moved to
Northeastern New York and I also had the same experience as noted above when
I attended SLCC. They Jokingly call the Hudson Valley Community College the
Harvard on the Hudson River.  Because the city of Troy where it's located is
on the Hudson River. 

Clinton,
I'm sorry I can't be of any assistance to you because I never took any
online classes when I attended SLCC. I did pretty much all my classes on
campus. Unfortunately, that is the only thing that comes to mind that you
might have to do. Because especially Freedom Scientific has a lousy track
record of making needed improvements to JAWS so these online systems like
Blackboard and myitlab work with their software correctly. We had a friend
whom before he worked for FS that attended a two year college in Augusta
Georgia where he's from and he was having  a lot of problems with using
Blackboard with JFW.  So what I would do is contact both FS and G!W Micro
tech support and see if they might be willing to make the required to make
the myitlab online system work with both JFW and Window Eyes. Good Luck 

Jessica

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Kevin Wassmer
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 9:47 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Myitlab... The never-ending battle

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" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
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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