[nabs-l] inaccessibility in the class may end up costing me a passing grade!

[Steve Jacobson]

Abby,

Arielle beat me to it regarding protected view.  However, I'm almost certain
that is the issue here.  Given some of the ideas here, I think I would try
to see is I could get a little extra time to show enough progress to pass
the course.  If you have copies of the emails that you sent your professor,
that might help to show you made some efforts, but it does sound as though
no change from the professor should have been required, so you need to take
a careful approach.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Abby Bolling
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Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 12:55 PM
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Cc: Abby Bolling <violingirl30794 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] inaccessibility in the class may end up costing me a
passing grade!

I use Jaws, and word 2013. for some reason, I can not use arrows in a 
word document that has comment fields inserted.
Like I said, I have spoken with my prof at least 4 to 5 times about the 
issue, and written emails 4 times re-stating the issue.

On 11/23/2015 1:49 PM, Steve Jacobson via nabs-l wrote:
> Abby,
>
> If there was a misunderstanding of what was to happen, I hope you can get
it
> resolved in such a way as to avoid not passing.  I know that some schools
do
> have a mechanism for allowing work to be turned in late to salvage a
grade,
> but of course that can vary between schools.
>
> To say that comments in Word are not accessible might be a difficult
> position to defend, though.  Which screen reader do you use and what
seemed
> to be not accessible?  You didn't say exactly what didn't work propperly.
> If your professor said he would send you his comments in parentheses, it
> would seem that he has some willingness to change to make things go better
> for you.  When did he agree to do that, and did you follow up to find out
> why that didn't happen?  It might be possible to avoid a confrontation,
but
> if not, you will need to have explanations ready for the above.  Your best
> bet might be to ask for additional time because you were not aware of how
to
> handle comments in Word and see if things can be salvaged that way.  If
for
> some reason you can't deal with the comments he has inserted, I would
think
> it would be reasonable to work with someone in your Disabled Students
office
> to make the comments available to you.  There seems to be some gray areas
> here, but I hope you can get it worked out.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Steve Jacobson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Abby Bolling
> via nabs-l
> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 11:44 AM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Abby Bolling <violingirl30794 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [nabs-l] inaccessibility in the class may end up costing me a
> passing grade!
>
> Hi all,
> So, I have been having so many problems with my English class in that
> even with all of your advice, I can not get the comments feature in MS
> word to work properly.
> So I have talked with and emailed my professor extensively all semester
> and we have agreed that he would put his comments in parenthesis.
> The problem is, he hasn't!
> I received an email this morning that consisted of him telling me that
> since I had not turned in any acceptable final drafts, I could not pass
> the class. he went on to say that I did nothing with the comments he
> provided which would have made my papers a lot better.
> I have since emailed his supervisor to explain what has been going on,
> because I refuse to accept a failing grade because a professor would not
> listen to accommadations that he had agreed upon in writing, and spoken
> word many times.
> Should I push further and harder with the supervisor if I don't hear
> from him in the next few days? I did get an email back from him saying
> that he and I could not meet today, but he would look into the situation
> and talk with my teacher early tomorrow morning.
> What would you all do in this situation?
> Also, a few of my teachers assignments are completed on a website called
> pilot.
> The conversation boards on pilot are almost completely inaccessible.
> I can read other students postings, burt I can not reply to them at all.
> I have tried to inform my teacher of this problem as well. His response
> was that he was sorry that technology wasn't working, but that I should
> work with Disability Services more! My problem is I have already
> informed ODS (several times) about this acce3ssibility problem, as well
> as the inaccessible of outlook webmail (which wright state uses for
> their email provider,) and nothing has been done.
> So where do I go next?
>
> Thanks,
> Abigail Bolling
>
>
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