[Social-sciences-list] CItation managers and Jaws or NVDA

[Katie Wang]

Hi Kaiti,

To my knowledge, Mendeley and Zetero don't work well with JAWS.
Endnote is reasonably accessible, but there is a bit of a learning
curve and some features are pretty clunky with a screen reader. I have
been using it for the past few years and it has met my basic needs,
but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for an undergraduate research
project. Using an Excel spreadsheet to organize your references sounds
like a good idea. You can set up separate columns for author, title,
source, and abstract/keywords from each article. I would also suggest
saving all of the articles you plan to cite in a designated folder so
that you can easily find them when preparing the bibliography section.
Feel free to let me know if you have any other questions about the
process of organizing references/citations - I'm happy to help!

Best,
Katie

On 3/10/17, Martin, Vincent F via Social-sciences-list
<social-sciences-list at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I use Endnote but with reservations.  I actually enter in all my citations
> and edit them in version 5.0 and do the citing in version 7.3.  I have
> version 8.x but haven't check to see how well it works.  The preliminary
> overview gave me less accessibility than I had with the previous versions.
> I just don't have the time to put forth much more effort into this as I am
> trying to do my dissertation proposal.  I am sure that scripting of JAWS
> would make it much more usable.
>
>
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> On Behalf Of Kaiti Shelton via Social-sciences-list
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> Subject: [Social-sciences-list] CItation managers and Jaws or NVDA
>
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry for the cross-posting, but I'm hoping to find any answers there might
> be to my questions fairly quickly.  I'm no worse off if nothing comes from
> this discussion, but it would be really helpful with a project I'm working
> on if information about accessibility and using these software
> programs/methods is out there.
>
> First, I'm wondering if anyone has experience using Mendeley for organizing
> citations with Jaws or NVDA.  What about End Note or Zotero?  I'm hoping
> Mendeley is usable as I'm on a student budget, but if End Note or Zotero are
> markedly more accessible, I'd be interested in trying them.  My Jaws is 13,
> but my NVDA is up-to-date.
>
> Second, I'm about to make a matrix for organizing and analyzing my sources.
> I was thinking of just doing this in excel, but if there are better/more
> accessible methods for this organization I'd love to hear them before I put
> the time into making a huge matrix.  I have 11 sources so far, but still
> have time to gather books and articles from related fields.
>
> The study I'm designing has the aim of identifying barriers in training for
> blind undergraduate music therapy students, as well as the accommodations
> that could be made for them in their clinical training to optimize training
> outcomes.  The assignment for this class is to complete a perspectus and the
> literature review, so the study will be well on its way to being organized
> by the time we leave school and can be presented to graduate schools if/when
> we apply.  Having methods for managing my citations and organizing my
> information will be helpful, as due to the literature gap in my field I'm
> pulling resources from disability studies, psychology, and education from
> journals I'm not very familiar with.  Any suggestions or feedback based on
> professional/student research experiences would be appreciated.
>
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