[nabs-l] Seems we lost an ally

[Ashley Bramlett]

Antonio,
What are the problems? Do you use jaws? I've tried to figure out the 
download; it took me a while to learn the old way, and now they changed it. 
I'm not the most patient with technology, keep in mind. If you have a cd 
player, you still can order daisy cds, but now that humanware no longer 
offers the little daisy players; vr wave, vr vibe and vr classic,  more 
probably will download. I still have my old vr wave and thankfully it works! 
Since as you said downloading is not friendly and a Daisy cd player is IMO 
easy to use and simple.

Humanware recently released a new victor reader player, vr strattus, which 
both plays those daisy cds and downloadable books from many places like nls 
and learning ally.

I encourage you to write learning ally. Many are disappointed. With changing 
their name, it seems they changed their mission to focus on learning 
disabilities without identifying them as disabled, for politically correct 
purposes. Tell them to still include blind people and that blind people have 
depended on them for over 30 years since they started. Don't let them forget 
us and be specific as to your accessibility challenges. Stating something is 
not accessible won't help.

Also IMo, their site is more hard to navigate. More images and complex 
organization. Like no longer can you see the book catalog from the main page 
and when you search books you cannot read the edition/publisher anymore 
without clicking on something extra. So I see like ten books with the same 
or similar name and it takes longer to figure out what to pick.
frustrated,
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Antonio Guimaraes
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 8:35 PM
To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nabs-l] Seems we lost an ally

Dear NABS members,

It is more than obvious to me that the new Learning Ally download
features fall short of offering blind screen reader users the services
we've come to know in previous years.

Today I experienced at least an hour of frustrations trying to use their
new and improved program for downloads. I have listened to their You
Tube video explaining the process, and then reached out to people like
you for some feedback.

There are several reports that blind readers can not use Learning Ally's
download features.

I am not a happy scholar. I am writing to find out if you too have come
up against issues with the download service.

The NABS division and its membership should not accept lack of access
from an organization that has long been at the forefront in providing
access to recorded texts for blind users.

Your experience will only help confirm some of the reported issues, and
hopefully result in rectifying what must certainly be an oversight on
Learning Ally's part.

Sincerely,

Antonio Guimaraes




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