[nfbcs] Equipment necessary for successing in IT

[Vincenzo Rubano]

Definitely agree with Jeffrey. Also make sure you can get accessible materials for studying eventual Math-related courses.

While I *strongly* agree with the suggestion of getting a Braille display (at least 40 cells, preferably 80), I disagree with the suggestion of printing API references in Braille: you would end up with thousands and thousands of pages collecting dust and having to be printed again and again as that API changes. Take confidence with your IDE of choice: nowadays you’ll be able to take advantage of its features for using the APIs you’re interested in efficiently. But that’s definitely a matter of personal tastes.

Also make sure you have a powerful enough machine 
and remember: RAM and disk storage are never enough!


> Il giorno 25 feb 2017, alle ore 08:20, Jeffrey D. Stark via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> ha scritto:
> 
> You might also consider VMWare and a computer powerful enough to use it on.
> Depending on the course and area it may be useful to be able to run variants
> of the material they are using at the university... 
> i.e. linux, windows server, different versions of windows .  This will allow
> you to customise it and easier for screen reader use.
> 
> VMWare will allow you to do this.
> However; you should have 2x the amount of ram you might otherwise have.  For
> example, I have a PC with a 1gig SSD, I7 processor and 24gigs of ram and
> this runs effectively & responsibly, 1 or more instances of a virtual
> environment  on top of my PC OS.
> 
> Also, not all programming environments are accessible, so decisions should
> be considered in that area too... depending on area of study.  This might
> require different screen readers to deal with different environments.
> 
> One mistake I made when I started out my higher education was to not scope
> out all the courses I would be taking in advance and identifying what the
> technical environment and applications I'd be expected to use and deal with
> in each course.
> 
> Instead of doing what I did... which was deal with it as it hit me....
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jessica Dail via
> nfbcs
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 2:53 PM
> To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Jessica Dail <jldail13 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [nfbcs] Equipment necessary for successing in IT
> 
> Hi,
> I plan to attend college this fall.
> I'm woddering what equipment or accommidations to ask for.
> I alp from a computer with a screen-reader.
> Any suggestions would be much appriciated.
> Thanks in advance,
> Jessica
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