[Nfbf-l] Florida state

[Christopher Toth]

Thank you for your helpful, well-considered response.  Of course the 
country-wide unemployment issue can be traced back to a lack of an O&M 
program at a single University, and you're quite right that we don't at 
all need to worry about blind students getting into relatively advanced 
fields.  I'm sorry I interrupted you.


RJ Sandefur wrote:
> But If you don't have OandM, How are blind kids going to learn cane 
> travel? If you don't have vision teachers, How are blind children 
> going to learn braille? We gripe and mone, that 72, percent of the 
> blind are unimployed... well, their's your answer! RJ
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Toth" <q.alpha at gmail.com>
> To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Florida state
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>> Their O&M program is of little consequence, in my opinion, if 
>> students which go here aren't even getting their basic accessibility 
>> needs met.
>> For instance, I'd like to invite you to try their math portal:
>> http://einstein.math.fsu.edu:9080/students
>> Go to that website, navigate to an assignment which does not require 
>> signup, and attempt to access it with any screen reader.
>> Then, consider the troubling fact that this eGrade software is 
>> utilized for 100% of undergraduate math courses at FSU, on every 
>> single practice assignment, homework, quiz, and exam with no 
>> provisions for visually impaired students.  Further consider that at 
>> least some of these math courses are required to enter any STEM field.
>> Or perhaps the case of the inaccessible PRS transmitters -- small 
>> electronic devices which are required in political science courses 
>> for tracking attendance and answering quiz questions but have exactly 
>> 0 audible feedback and require an inaccessible setup/class joining 
>> process daily.
>> I am a second-year student here at this fine university, and I have 
>> recently switched my major from computer science, my passion, to 
>> political science because none of my needs were being met by the 
>> inaccessible math program.  Things are bad here, to the point where I 
>> have contacted the folks in Baltimore for some assistance.
>>
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>> RJ Sandefur wrote:
>>> I heard that Florida state is cuting their orentation and mobility 
>>> program! They must not care about the blind of their state! What is 
>>> the NFBF of Florida going to do about this? RJ
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