[nabs-l] Tutoring and outlook

Tue Dec 8 04:12:08 UTC 2015

Anna,

One option would be to try Cardinal Scholars. They offer really great pay
for tutoring! I haven't found it to be super accessible, but maybe you'll
have more luck.

You can also try to tutor on campus in person. I tutor students who are in
an introductory biology class, and have found it extremely rewarding!

Hope you find something that works!
Kennedy Stomberg

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Anna via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Thanks Jason, I am able to get that far.  It's when I have typed a whole
> message and discover an error somewhere in the middle of the message and
> need to go to that spot with the cursor that I am having problems.
> I use the line or word or character thing but that doesn't work if I want
> the cursor to stay wherever I'm trying to put it and type.
>
> Anna E Givens
>
>
> > On Dec 7, 2015, at 8:09 PM, Jason Polansky via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > For outlook, if you double-tap on the message body text field,
> > VoiceOver should either say "insertion point at start" or "insertion
> > point at end." This is a toggle setting, meaning that if you are
> > focused on the text field and don't type anything, then you should be
> > able to switch your insertion point from start to end. You want your
> > insertion point to be at the start, so your message is at the top. It
> > is a little weird that all of the previous messages in that thread are
> > in that text field, but that's just how it is. Hope this helps.
> >
> >> On 12/7/15, Jessica Hodges via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Oh, IC. I'm sorry, I really have no answers for you. Hope you find a
> place.
> >> I know that there absolutely is a need for tutoring of this kind.
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >>> On Dec 7, 2015, at 4:38 PM, Anna via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm sorry.  I suppose I should specify.  I want to be a tutor. Not to
> be
> >>> tutored.
> >>>
> >>> Anna
> >>>
> >>> Anna E Givens
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Dec 7, 2015, at 5:22 PM, Jessica Hodges via nabs-l <
> nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I think the best thing you could do is find someone online who knows
> the
> >>>> subject well, and try to learn from them. don't think you'll really
> get
> >>>> much help from most mainstream tutoring cites. However, it is also
> >>>> important to weigh how well you can grasp abstract things. If you are
> >>>> good at visualizing things, online may work for you, but if you have a
> >>>> hard time grasping visual/spacial concepts, you may want to look for
> >>>> someone in your actual location. Though I have found a few people
> online
> >>>> who have described things to me much better than anyone i had contact
> >>>> with where i lived at the time, when I did find someone in my home
> town
> >>>> who was able to sit down and explain it trumped the awesome progress i
> >>>> thought i was making online. The only reason I bring this up is that
> >>>> math/science/stem stuff is chock full of abstract, spacial things. I
> hope
> >>>> that you find something to help, whether its online or in person,
> these
> >>>> subjects can be brutal.
> >>>> Hope this helps:
> >>>> Jessica.
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 12/7/2015 4:11 PM, Anna via nabs-l wrote:
> >>>>> I have two questions.
> >>>>> First,
> >>>>> I am wondering about using outlook on an I-phone with Voice Over.  It
> >>>>> seems to work pretty well with VO but the problem I'm having is
> editing
> >>>>> messages that I'm typing.  It will read the text that I typed but if
> >>>>> there is something I need to correct, I cannot figure out how to get
> the
> >>>>> cursor to go to and stay in a chosen place to make corrections.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Secondly,
> >>>>> I am curious about online tutoring, specifically tutoring math and
> >>>>> science.  I have been wanting to do this for a while, but I don't
> know
> >>>>> how to do it with JAWS.  I have checked into a couple of online
> >>>>> platforms but they use things  like whiteboards and stuff that I
> don't
> >>>>> know how to use at all, much less with a screen reader.  So I guess
> my
> >>>>> question is:  Is it possible for a blind person to tutor STEM
> subjects
> >>>>> online without a whole huge extra effort?
> >>>>> Wondering if anyone has any experience or thoughts on that.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Anna E Givens
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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