[nabs-l] A Struggling Blind Student Looking for Some Advice

[Karl Martin Adam]

Dear Elizabeth,

NVDA can use different voices.  I'm not sure how the audio thing 
would work either because if you could record your answers it 
seems to me you could just as easily dictate them to a scribe.  
If it makes sense to you though, it is possible to record 
different file types on the stream.  If you don't know how to do 
this, give Humanware tech support a call.  They are very helpfull 
and would be happy to walk you through anything about getting 
files from your stream to your professor that you would like to 
know.

Best,
Karl

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Elizabeth Mohnke via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 17:35:45 -0500
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A Struggling Blind Student Looking for Some 
Advice

Hello All,,

If I cannot understand the voice from NVDA then what good is it 
going to be
for me to practice using it? No amount of practice is going to 
change this
for me.

The only recording device I have is a Victor Stream. So how 
exactly would
this option work for me? It would seem to me the only way to 
allow my
professor to listen to my answers would be to give her my victor 
stream. I
would not feel comfortable doing this because I have all my 
reading
materials on it. And since the victor stream has its own special 
recording
format, I cannot just simply save a copy of the recording and 
send it to my
professor.

It seems as though there would be too many logistics for this 
option. And I
have absolutely no idea if the disabilities office would allow 
such an
accommodation. The disabilities office seems to be rather 
controlling in
what it is willing to approve of as an accommodation.

Elizabeth
-----Original Message-----
From: Mikayla Gephart [mailto:mikgephart at icloud.com]
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 5:13 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Cc: Elizabeth Mohnke <lizmohnke at hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A Struggling Blind Student Looking for Some 
Advice

Elizabeth, I understand some of the frustration. We are not at 
all implying
that a training center would solve all your problems. How many of 
our
members have left a training center, only to still need help with 
their
colleges? could you practice with NVDA from wherever you are 
emailing right
now? The more you practice, the better. Blindness and health 
problems do not
have to stop you from living the life y want.

Sent from my iPad

 On Jan 29, 2016, at 5:02 PM, Elizabeth Mohnke via nabs-l
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

 Hello All,

 I honestly wish I had never posted my email to this email list. 
I really
hate the fact that it just seems like all you are wanting to do 
is tell me
that an NFB training center is somehow going to solve all the 
problems in my
life. Even if I could ever go to an NFB training center, I will 
probably
never gain the Braille skills necessary to be able to use them in 
a testing
situation.

 I have never used a smart phone before, so this option would not 
work for
me. There is absolutely no way I would be able to learn how to 
use it good
enough to use for a test that is in two weeks. I am already 
trying to catch
up in this class after being sick, so I am not looking to add 
anything more
to my plate than what is already on it.

 Using NVDA sounds like a good option, but again, I have never 
used it
before, and I cannot understand the voice that comes with it . So 
I am not
quite sure how this option would work for me.

 I am sorry that I am not able to fight my college and the 
vocational
rehabilitation all on my own. The Client Assistant Program does 
not do much
of anything here. And no one in the NFB has never really been 
willing to
help me either. All I wanted to do was to find a way to pass this 
class. But
it looks as though I simply do not have the support, resources, 
and capacity
to do the things I wanted to be able to do before my accident.

 I should have never signed up to take this class. I really did 
not have
the money to pay for it in the first place, and right now it just 
feels like
this was only a waste of my money. And I should just learn that I 
am never
going to be the same person that I was before my accident.

 Elizabeth

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