[Pibe-division] teaching online courses when totally blind

[David Andrews]

If you were an employee you could request a reasonable accommodation, 
like a reader, or allowance to pay readers, or an accessible 
system.  If this college receives federal funds, the will ultimately 
need to offer students and staff an accessible system.

Dave

At 03:20 PM 1/11/2013, you wrote:
>             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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