[nabs-l] Minilab... The never-ending battle
Jess
jessica.trask.reagan at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 15:55:21 UTC 2009
Clinton,
Are your professors posting their items online? If this is the case then
have you tried talking to them and telling them the myitlab software isn't
accessible for someone is totally blind students. If you tell them that they
may be willing to accommodate you with the items through email or in print
so that you can scan them in the computer. Telina, doesn't have any other
ideas on needs to be done? I only say that because the first year I was
attending SLCC she was doing the technology stuff pretty much. Like I said
earlier I might be a good idea to contact both tech support for both FS and
GW Micro because they may be willing to work with you and the publisher to
make it accessible for future blind students. Because I have a feeling that
it's something a problem with something in the programming language in JAWS
and I Window Eyes. Have you tried downloading a thirty day demo of System
Access to see if you run into the same problem using SA that you are having
with both JFW and Window Eyes?
Jessica
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Of clinton waterbury
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 8:12 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Minilab... The never-ending battle
Jess.
I'm taking all the classes on campus, and they still won't really help
out with things much.
On Jul 28, 2009, at 4:37 AM, Jess wrote:
> 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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