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

[Elizabeth Mohnke]

Hello Dave,

I do not have the administrative rights as a student to install the
companion software on the campus computers.

The only voice I am able to understand well is the voice that comes with
JAWS. As I understand it, you need to pay in order to use this voice. I do
not have the money for this right now. 

I did not realize my money would be so tight after I signed up for this
class. I did not drop my class when I found out that my money was going to
be so tight because I really wanted to be able to take this class. But now
it just looks like it was only a waste of time and money.

Elizabeth

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David Andrews
via nabs-l
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 6:26 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Cc: David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com>
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A Struggling Blind Student Looking for Some Advice

You can use the Humanware Companion to convert the 3GP files to MP3 files,
which anyone can use.

And, there are other voices available for NVDA, some free some for pay.

Dave

At 04:35 PM 1/29/2016, you wrote:
>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

         David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
E-Mail:  dandrews at visi.com or david.andrews at nfbnet.org


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