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

Sat Jan 30 00:41:05 UTC 2016

    Ben,
You have elloquence with NVDA?
I was told by several people that that was not feasible.
Did you pay for that, and if so, how much was it?
What other better sounding voices does it support? Does it support the 
voices that the humanware victor stratus has? I think the stratus and vr 
stream  have the Real speak voices.

Thanks.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ben J. Bloomgren via nabs-l
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 7:33 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Cc: Ben J. Bloomgren
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A Struggling Blind Student Looking for Some Advice

Elizabeth and all,

There are add-ons for NVDA which give you access to better voices. I have an
add-on which gives you Eloquence. I'd even be willing to send you a zipped
link to my portable NVDA via Dropbox if you wish.

Also, for the long term, I would definitely look into Hadley School for the
Blind (http://www.hadley.edu). They have correspondence course for Braille
and a plethora of other items.

Ben
----- 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>
Cc: "Elizabeth Mohnke" <lizmohnke at hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 15:35
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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