[stylist] Excited to have my first novella published! Jackie Williams

[April Brown via stylist]

Hello  Jackie Williams,

That would have been a wonderful gift to be able to be able to publish your mother's books.

Trying to figure out where each new operating system hides is so difficult.  I've always created my own folders so I can find them.  Then, it's a matter of setting each program to save it to where I can find it, and not some random hidden file buried in the hard drive.

Conceptional training might help me.  Not sure.

Good luck!  My hearing is pretty severe too.  I can hear, just not comprehend well.  I would probably learn best with either large print print at this point, or even braille.  Without written directions, I am lost.

Are you re-learning the Mac?  Or just new Windows?

Have a great day,

April Brown

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April,
Your persistence in the face of confusion and disillusion with the
accessibility software is a great lesson for all of us. Particularly me. I
used to have a Mac twenty years ago when    I had my vision. It was a
wonderful gift that allowed me to publish five of my mother's books. When
forced to use a P C with Windows when so much software was needed in my
teaching career, I had a terrible time making the change.  I had state
training  pre Windows XP, and hobbled along with my poetry. Now with the
upgrade to Windows 7, Office 10, etc. everything ends up somewhere not
intended, and my Jaws 15 will not read many things. I rehired my state
teacher on my own on a budget breaker salary, and she could not get many
things to work right. Finally, after an eight month wait, I qualified for  a
state teacher with no cost to me. He is a marvelous teacher, totally blind,
and explains things conceptually so that I have a chance of understanding
how things  are put together.
He also finds many things that are inexplicable, but he is researching the
settings, and I have faith that, given a few months, I may make sense of all
of Donna's lessons in self-publishing, and learn to access other things she
talks about. I have only had two lessons with him so far. His wife drives
him to my home, and sometimes translates because he has the Indian
pronunciation, and my hearing problem is severe. We manage.
With your persistence and one big success, I know you will keep moving
ahead. Sincere congratulations. 

Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz