[stylist] Excited to have my first novella published! AshleyBramlett

Mon May 12 23:03:55 UTC 2014

April,

You do have the right to demand services. I've been in your shoes, and I
was given a lot of misinformation. As a consumer, especially one in dire
need of services, you have every right to demand them. What state are
you in?

Bridgit

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AshleyBramlett

Hello  Ashley Bramlett ,

Smashwords produces all kinds of formats.  PDF, and almost all ebook
readers.

I am using a new Mac.  It has software, just no written training manual.
Nothing for me to use, or a guide to check when I have a problem, or
can't remember how to do something with VoiceOver, or any of the other
accessibility programs on it. I know they are there, and have no idea
how to set them up or use them.  They just take up space at the moment.

I've been trying to get help through the state for over a year now.  In
December, they were set up to set a training date.  Then, she realized,
I need my hearing evaluated, and wait on that.  That evaluation is soon.
I was then told, it would be a minimum of two months after that before
the next meeting to determine a training date.  So, maybe in September
if I am lucky.

Any time I contact anyone, including product demonstrators for the book
reading software, I am told to wait on the state training.  I guess I am
supposed to be sitting and twiddling my thumbs forgetting everything I
ever knew until the process can advance at their schedule.

I don't talk or listen on the phone much.  I tend to irritate people.
By the time I've heard, and comprehended four or five words, they've
been talking for ten minutes.  I don't depend on my hearing for spoken
words at all.

Thanks so much,

April Brown

Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide behind.

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April, glad you got through it. congradulations. What formats is the
book in? I 
know you self published it, but I don't know much about how smashwords 
produces works.

Are you using a regular computer with no special software now? As to the
computer issues, is there no one to assist you from a nfb chapter? 
Is there no
nonprofit like a lighthouse or community center to help? I know NC has 
Metrolina association for the blind, GA has the center for the visually 
impaired and CA has several such as the Junior blind of america and
braille 
institute.

I'd come over and help you with jaws if I could.
Screen readers can be daunting. there is many commands and then you
learn 
the microsoft commands too; so it's a lot.

Continue to press for training as its better to get it now than when
your 
vision is much less usable.
There are also services where they train you by phone. But I think if at
all 
possible, you'd benefit from in person instruction.

Your vr sounds as useful as mine. Its hard to get pc training; think I
had 
to wait a long time to get on a tutor's overbooked schedule.

Anyway, if you want the info for remote training via phone, let me know;
you 
pay by the session, btw.

Ashley
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