[nfb-db] Introduction

[heather albright]

Hello, April,  Do you have a case with your department of rehabilitation 
services?  They should provide you with equipment to help you!  Do you know 
braille and cane travel etc!  Each state should have a center to teach you 
skills for ajustment!  I live in Texas and we have the criscole center where 
people can go for training to learn blindness skills! However, I went to the 
colorado Center for the blind in Denver for my training!  By Federal law, 
one can go anywhere to receive their training your local rehab will pay for 
it!
If by chance were speaking about Microsoft narrorator with windows, she is 
not that great and most people don't like her!  I use NVDA and Jaws for my 
screenreaders!  Jaws I like more and NVDA I am still trying to get used too! 
If you have hearing trouble, I highly recommend you to learn braille so you 
can use a display while writing with the computer!  You can get audio 
description to tell you what is going on in tv shows through your SAP 
channel!  The catch is you have to find it in your tv's minues and set it 
up!  More people know about closed captioning than DVS but if you can find 
the SAP, you can get for several shows!  But first obtain a case with your 
local rehab agancy and go from there! "Blindness is a characteristic, not a 
handicap!" Dr. Kenneth Jernigan
home and cell and text:
512-680-3985
skype:
cynterline
e-mail:
halbright1981 at gmail.com
websites:
national Federation of The  Blind:
www.nfb.org  How the blind do it:
www.blindhow.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: April Brown
To: nfb-db at nfbnet.org
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 5:04 AM
Subject: [nfb-db] Introduction



Hello,

     I am a writer who is a visual learner, who has recently been diagnoses
legally blind.  I also wearing a hearing, and have difficulty comprehending
vocal words, especially on  low vision days.  I've always learned by sight.
Now, that's becoming difficult.

      Until my recent vision loss, I always used closed captioned on tv,
when it was available, so I could understand what was being said.

     I am trying to find an affordable solution for writing and editing for
screen reading and dictation, preferably combined.  Dragon has crashed my
computer a hundred times, and I've had to reformat all three I've tried it
on multiple times.  Right now, I'm using the Microsoft speech recognition,
and the NVDIA program part of the time, and not very successfully.

      I have the cassettes to start the listening course from Hadley.  (Last
week was my 40th birthday week vacation, so I planned ahead to have them
arrive so I could start them tomorrow.)

     Any other suggestions or ideas that may help me in the adjusting
process?

Thanks,
April Brown

Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide behind.


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