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

Sat Jan 30 02:37:29 UTC 2016

Hello,

Simply because this suggestion works for some does not mean it will work for
all. I have a hard enough time typing with the use of a screen reader, I
cannot imagine how horrible my typing would be without the use of a screen
reader.

Elizabeth

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Carly Mihalakis
via nabs-l
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 9:32 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>;
National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Carly Mihalakis <carlymih at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A Struggling Blind Student Looking for Some Advice

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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