[NFBMD] NFBMD Digest, Vol 95, Issue 2

[Michelle Clark]

Thanks Jason. JAWS has many more features then many will ever know. That
justifies the cost.

Michelle

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Today's Topics:

   1. Textbooks on using screen readers and Microsoft programs from
      Access Technology Institute (Jason Polansky)


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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 15:34:04 -0400
From: Jason Polansky <jpolansky.nfb at gmail.com>
To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org, nfbmd at nfbnet.org
Subject: [NFBMD] Textbooks on using screen readers and Microsoft
	programs from Access Technology Institute
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Hello all,
I wanted to inform you of an excellent resource for learning technology as a
blind student or individual that many of you most likely have never heard
of. The web site is www.blind.training, and it's managed by CathyAnne
Murtha. She has written textbooks on Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel,
Internet explorer, Outlook, and using JAWS and Window Eyes in general. The
textbooks go into more advanced features that we often times have not been
taught and ones often believed to be inaccessible, and they're explained in
a way that is simple to understand. I'm pretty sure each textbook runs for
$90, but I think it's worth the investment, at least the Excel one was for
me. When you purchase it, you receive a link to a zip file that can be
downloaded. It includes an mp3 version, a text file, a docx file, and other
useful files and worksheets. I just learned about it yesterday after posting
to the computer science list. I can tell that she spent a lot of time
compiling these resources,  and this definitely needs to be promoted far and
wide through the NFB and to blind persons and professionals in the blindness
field. It's a resource the most do not know about, but I believe that it's
crucial that we share it, especially in this technologically advday society
in which many blind people are not keeping up with.


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