[Nfbc-info] [Theroundtable] OT Re: Accessible Career Assessment Sites Similar to http://www.eureka.org please?

[Chela Robles]

You know it would be a great idea to find contact info for the people
who run that site to make it more accessible and to somehow if
possible, perhaps they could make the system not have me restart the
MicroSkills test whenever I want to add/remove skill choices from my
lists. I'll try to look for the contact info if any exists.

On 6/24/11, Chela Robles <cdrobles693 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes it is not off topic because translating is one of the options.
> Unfortunately, they meaning the colege doesn't have very many blind
> people anymore, mostly wheelchair users and low-vision who use CCTV's.
> I'm the only one that uses nothing by speech output, the career
> services only recommend it, that site.
>
> On 6/24/11, dorenefc at aol.com <dorenefc at aol.com> wrote:
>> Hi Chela
>>
>> If there were any indication that this career assessment tool included
>> possibilities realted to translation, interpretation, linguistics,
>> language teaching etc, I would say your question is not off-topic.
>>
>> However I replied to the list and made the subject line OT because the
>> issue is self-advocacy. Why should it be your responsibility to suggest
>> alternatives to an inaccessible site? I THINK it's the responsibility
>> of your career services office to use tools that are accessible or to
>> provide you alternatives. It's THEIR job, not yours to find accessible
>> tools and to include accessiblity as a criterion in their purchasing
>> decisions.
>>
>> In this case, the vendor is probably selling to several colleges and
>> skating about accessibility at all of them so it is in lots of people's
>> interests for you to speak up!
>>
>> So do you need help figuring out who to speak up to? I would be
>> interested to knwo waht you decide and what comes of it.
>>
>> Okay end of tirade!
>>
>> DoreneC
>> Seattle WA
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chela Robles <cdrobles693 at gmail.com>
>> To: NFB of California List <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>; California
>> Association of Blind Students Mailing List <cabs-talk at nfbnet.org>; Jobs
>> for the Blind <jobs at nfbnet.org>; bookshare-discuss
>> <bookshare-discuss at freelists.org>; the-city-cafe
>> <the-city-cafe at googlegroups.com>; A list for blind and low vision
>> translators and interpreters and theirinterested professors
>> <theroundtable at lists.screenreview.org>
>> Sent: Fri, Jun 24, 2011 10:25 am
>> Subject: [Theroundtable] Accessible Career Assessment Sites Similar to
>> http://www.eureka.org please?
>>
>> Hello All,
>> Recently, I've been trying to do a couple of assessments from a site
>> which my community college, Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill
>> California, recommended me to use, the career counseling services
>> there recommended I use http://www.eureka.org/ which isn't all that
>> accessible plus even with sighted assistance, the system of add/remove
>> choices is a waste of my time and my sighted assistant's time as well
>> in that I'd have to restart the MicroSkills test all over again for
>> example. I know that the AFB Career Connect site is just the Job
>> Seeker's Toolkit lessons, however I've not seen any sites on their
>> sites having to do with taking similar career assessment tests to
>> OcuSort and MicroSkills from Eureka. If there are any such sites you
>> all recommend that is screen-reader-friendly, please pass them along
>> to me at cdrobles693 at gmail.com as to not clutter up lists, thanks much
>> greatly appreciate it.
>> --
>> --
>> "To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you
>> forever. It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be
>> sophisticated,
>> but when you get the two of them together in a way people can relate to,
>> then I think you're on to something. You want the sophistication to lie
>> in
>> the purity of the sound, the beauty of the arrangements, and the
>> quality of
>> the performances."-Trumpeter Chris Botti
>> --
>> Chela Robles
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>> to
>> the song selection, fill out the form which requires no CAPCHAS unless
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>
> --
> --
> "To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you
> forever. It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be sophisticated,
> but when you get the two of them together in a way people can relate to,
> then I think you're on to something. You want the sophistication to lie in
> the purity of the sound, the beauty of the arrangements, and the quality of
> the performances."-Trumpeter Chris Botti
> --
> Chela Robles
> E-Mail/GoogleTalk/AIM/Twitter/MySpace/LinkedIn: cdrobles693 at gmail.com
> WindowsLive Messenger: cdrobles693 at hotmail.com
> E-Buddy ID: cdrobles693
> Skype Name: jazzytrumpet
> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chela.robles
> I volunteer for a non-profit organization called Bookshare, to learn more
> and to join us, visit: http://www.bookshare.org
> Visit my blog piece from Learning Ally and after reading and listening to
> the song selection, fill out the form which requires no CAPCHAS unless
> you're a robot at:
> http://www.learningally.org/Blog/Access-and-Achievement/144/vobId__2525/
> Cell: 19252505955
> --
>


-- 
--
"To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you
forever. It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be sophisticated,
but when you get the two of them together in a way people can relate to,
then I think you're on to something. You want the sophistication to lie in
the purity of the sound, the beauty of the arrangements, and the quality of
the performances."-Trumpeter Chris Botti
--
Chela Robles
E-Mail/GoogleTalk/AIM/Twitter/MySpace/LinkedIn: cdrobles693 at gmail.com
WindowsLive Messenger: cdrobles693 at hotmail.com
E-Buddy ID: cdrobles693
Skype Name: jazzytrumpet
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chela.robles
I volunteer for a non-profit organization called Bookshare, to learn more
and to join us, visit: http://www.bookshare.org
Visit my blog piece from Learning Ally and after reading and listening to
the song selection, fill out the form which requires no CAPCHAS unless
you're a robot at:
http://www.learningally.org/Blog/Access-and-Achievement/144/vobId__2525/
Cell: 19252505955
--