[Trainer-Talk] Learning Ally Link

[Deborah Armstrong]

Access it yes. Use it not so much. I agree with you there.

I never said highly usable. But it's usable enough for me to train someone and that's all that really matters since our college does loan daisy players to students who need them. Most of my Link users want to read on the Mac. And they have some vision and depend on it. Or they have learning or physical limitations.

It is really funny how accessibility is different in different situations. If I can find everything in a software package but I can't use it conveniently, is it accessible? I guess not, but that's often difficult to convince others, so I tend to only argue about access when software is completely unusable. I do wish people did not treat accessibility as such a binary thing!


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From: Trainer-Talk [mailto:trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dean Martineau via Trainer-Talk
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 11:39 AM
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Well, all I can say is I'm glad you think that app is highly usable by the blind.  I learned from talking to them that all books come in two formats, one being DAISY and the other being whatever that app uses.  I found navigating books with that app to be quite unpleasant.  I had to revert to a DAISY player.

In your situation, I would call customer service and get help from them after describing your predicament.  They should be able to efficiently describe the screens.

Dean


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Subject: [Trainer-Talk] Learning Ally Link

I need to help sighted people with Learning Ally Link and though I can access it fine, I really have no idea what it looks like, where the icons are, etc.

For most products, there are good manuals which explain this sort of thing, but I can only find a simple quick start guide which seems mainly geared for blind people.

Does anyone have some insight in to its more visual elements, especially for people who have trouble reading words and need to know what to click on? For example, what does the "play" button look like?

Thanks.

--Debee

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