[Pibe-division] teaching online courses when totally blind

[Kimberly Morrow, Ph.D.]

            Greetings:

 

I am a certified teacher of the visually impaired, but work fulltime in a
completely unrelated profession. I am considering proposing the instruction
of an online course at a local college. It is my understanding that the
online instructional platform the college utilizes, Angel, is not accessible
either with JAWS or with Apple Voice-Over software. My concern, of course,
is that hiring readers would consume the majority of any salary I might earn
as a part-time instructor. That said, however, I wonder if I have much right
to request any type of accommodation through whatever college at which I
would teach, given the fact that I would only be employed on a freelance
basis. I am confident I am not the first person who is blind to ever
confront this type of dilemma. How have others handled it?

 

Many thanks in advance,

 

Kimberly Morrow

 

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