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

Sat Jan 30 02:31:59 UTC 2016

Evening, List,

That is a good suggestion~! 'smatter of cfact, at times I was editing 
my writing with sighted student writing tutors, I used the in class 
computers in exactly that manner. And, it works well.
CarAt 04:02 PM 1/29/2016, Jamie Principato via nabs-l wrote:
>Another option would be to type your responses without JAWS, and 
>have a scribe or reader read it back to you and help you correct 
>typos and errors it's still your independent work, but you'd have a 
>reader do the job of JAWS until the school gets the computers with jaws fixed.
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 29, 2016, at 4:56 PM, Elizabeth Mohnke via nabs-l 
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Jamie,
> >
> > How can you assume the disabilities office would have a tape recorder? As
> > far as I can tell, the disabilities office does not have much of anything.
> >
> > And if I have a difficult time using the screen reader voice that I have
> > been using for years, I do not believe I would be able to learn 
> how to use a
> > new voice that I simply cannot understand.
> >
> > I am sorry if you do not understand or believe me. And I am even more sorry
> > that I posted my question about how to take my exam on this email list.
> > Having everyone jump down my throat about not being able to attend an NFB
> > training center or not having perfect Braille skills was 
> definitely not what
> > I needed today. It looks as though the positive support of the NFB is for
> > everyone else besides me.
> >
> > Elizabeth.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jamie
> > Principato via nabs-l
> > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 6:31 PM
> > To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> > Cc: Jamie Principato <blackbyrdfly at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A Struggling Blind Student Looking for Some Advice
> >
> > The disability office probably has a tape recorder. Also, if you don't
> > understand a speech synthesizer, practice actually does help with 
> that. It's
> > just like how toddlers don't understand grown up speech until they've
> > listened to it a lot. A big part of it is to not throw ideas out with an "I
> > can't" or "I'll never be able to" right off the bat.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >>> On Jan 29, 2016, at 3:35 PM, Elizabeth Mohnke via nabs-l
> >> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> 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
> >>>
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