[nabs-l] Suggestions for textbook for a fall Spanish class

[annajee82 at gmail.com]

For my Spanish class, the disability services got publisher files and it read correctly with JAWS set on Spanish setting.  But it was really hard for me to understand since I was not used to listening to JAWS speak in Spanish.  So I had to slow it way down and often go character by character to see how things were spelled and things like that.  I used a reader who knew Spanish.  I am unable use braille because of other medical problems, but if I had been able to use braille, I would have done that even if it meant getting the book transcribed into braille.  
I used tutors as readers sometimes too.

Anna E Givens


> On Apr 22, 2016, at 11:07 AM, Haley Sumner via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> Hope your semesters are finishing strong with as little  stress as possible. I will be a sophomore in the fall at butler university, and in achieving my goal of obtaining a Spanish minor upon graduation, I will be taking my first, Of   many Spanish classes. For those of you who have taken Spanish, I am curious as to how you accessed and read your textbook. My disability office is having trouble converting the book from a PDF file to a plain text document, as the accent marks aren't transferring over. Since I am primarily a brailled reader, I was wondering if you had any suggestions or recommendations on alternative ways to make the book accessible , so I can then save it onto my Braille sense. Digital copies are wonderful, but if they aren't able to transfer all of the symbols, would the kurzweil software be an option for reading via audio? 
> Thanks so much,   
> 
> Haley Sumner 
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