[nabs-l] citing APA style

Tue Apr 24 01:13:49 UTC 2012

Hi, Ashley.
In the future, if you want Braille, because your college may make you
use APA, more offten, you can get your books Brailled, through this
resource.
http://www.mbvol.org
I'm going to keep promoting them, because they're going to Braille my
books, this Fall!
Blessings, Joshua

On 4/23/12, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Humberto,
> Jaws hase limitations where as a sighted person reads the whole liine and
> knows that say Sociology is italicized and Smith is not.
> You do not get this info unles you look for it and I don't always know where
> to look for it. Insert f is limiting because it tells you info relevant to
> that word only. I need to know where periods, commas, italics, etc are
> within the whole line in this case. The way to learn is to have it explained
> or see it brailled; braille is not an option in college; no braille
> reference book, so I have to learn by someone telling me.
>
> Also, I think I get it based on good explanations here; but having someone
> look over this stuff is not a bad idea, time permitting. After all, that is
> what tutoring is for in college. Most schools offer this.
>
> Ashley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Humberto Avila
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 6:31 PM
> To: 'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] citing APA style
>
> Hello  Ashley and all.
>
> I'm not trying to criticize your screen reader usage. But can't you use your
> screen reader's specific commands to read font information and the like?
> Isn't there a way to tell colors and at least attempt to format them
> yourselves? I know I can do that with JAWS. The command for telling me the
> font information using JAWS is insert+F, and the command to tell me what
> color I am working with is insert+5, 5 meaning the number row on the
> keyboard. I'm not sure you can do that in NVDA, but there are also settings
> in NVDA that allow you to describe the font or text attributes.
> In the settings center (for jaws 12 and over) / configuration manager (jaws
> 11 and under), there are settings that tell JAWS how to do all sorts of
> things. Like there is a dialog box called the "speech and sounds scheme"
> where you can specify what you want JAWS to speak. In NVDA, you can go to
> the NVDA preferences menu and choose the "document formatting" dialog box in
> which you can specify the settings that you want, like what attributes you
> want NVDA to speak to you. My point is, yes you can request a reader, but
> don't just request a reader for these things that a screen reader can do for
> you. It might take you just a few seconds of your homework / study / testing
> time when you hear that extra information coming out of your speakers or
> headphones and deciphering into your brain for reading, but it is feasible.
> Besides some of you crank that voice rate on your screen readers pretty
> high. At least for me. I don't' want to rely so much on a reader just to
> tell me, "hey this text is displaying in italics, red, and underlined."
> while my screen reader can be my own reader for that. Isn't why such
> software is called "screen reader"? Because it reads to you. [smile!]
>
> Hope this helps you, and I am sorry if I'm starting a hot debate in here
> about using real readers Vs. JAWS for editing font attributes. <smile>
>
> Cheers,
> Humberto
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Ashley Bramlett
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 1:28 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] citing APA style
>
> gee, Josh, lots of people hate formatting. Its just a little harder for us
> since we cannot see it so someone has to tell us.
> It used to be that you put the article in quotes and underlined book or
> chapter titles.From what I can see so far, this is no longer the case.
> You start it the same though. Just do not put quotes or underlines; its
> still author's name, date in parenthesis, title of article or book, title of
>
> journal. then not sure.
>
> I'll ask someone sighted yeah, but I need to learn. I can certainly bold or
> italic something if I know what need  to be bolded/italiacized.
>
> Ashley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Lester
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 3:52 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] citing APA style
>
> I've always hated APA format!
> It's very confusing!
> My Freshmen English instructor made us use it, so I had a sighted
> work-study help me format it.
> I'd recommend this, as well.
> Blessings, Joshua
>
> On 4/23/12, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm struggling with the citation style as usual. Jaws doesn't tell me the
>> formatting of the words and I went word by word to hear punctuation in the
>> sample reference entry I looked up.  I do have to alphabetize them, right?
>
>> I
>> know you do in MLA.
>>
>> How Do I format the Journal title and title of article? Do I put italics
>> or
>> anything on it? Before there were quotes around the title of article, but
>> when I looked online now, there are none.
>> How do I site the volume number and issue? The sample says number and a
>> parenthese number. I'm confused. I know I site the page number range after
>> this. Like do I write Journal of Adolescent psychology, 3 (24) and the 3
>> is
>> volume number and 24 is issue number?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Ashley
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