[VABS] nova

[Ashley Bramlett]

Hello,
Nova charges for printing by the page; its 12 cents I think.
As for embossing, we could likely get away with it being free. They have  no 
way to collect money off the embossers where as the printers, you swipe your 
ID there and the ID is linked to your student money account. They will 
receive so little demand for embossing that it would not be worth the 
charge.

Mark, that is terrible  news that they did not update jaws at the Manassas 
campus. I know the annandale campus has an updated license.
You are fortunate to have a surface Pro. That is expensive. Can you even 
load a screen reader on that tablet, I wonder?
You were fortunate to have enough vision for the handouts. You could 
definitely use that! My vision does not let me read magnification long. I 
used a reader but that was long after the class could read their handouts.
I always bought my books.
A student who can use large print will have less problems at Nova.
For textbooks, I've used all formats: electronic texts if the school gave it 
to me, scanning it myself via OCR, live readers, audio texts from NLS or 
Learning ally, and even finding some open source texts of books or articles 
online. The online stuff was typically for history or english assignments 
where stuff is old and not copyrighted.
Blind students rarely used readers now a days but they were necessary for 
me. I did not get things handed to me on a silver platter at nova or any 
college. So, I had to figure out things myself. A friend of mine though goes 
to JMU. She has few struggles. She is handed all her textbooks 
electronically, the DSS office even got some texts brailled for science, she 
got models of body parts to feel for anatomy,
and professors are generally helpful. She was bragging to me the first 
semester that professors were understanding and how she used their office 
hours for help. She said it was easier than high school!
JMU btw is james madison university.
So, she is fortunate. IF you go to JMU, it probably is better. Nova, sorry 
to say, you will struggle. Speak up and advocate for your needs. And if it 
does not work out with a professor and you have to have that class to 
graduate, my advice is to drop the class and take it later with a better 
professor.

Have a good week all, and happy 4th of july!
Ashley
-----Original Message----- 
From: Marc Canamaso via VABS
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2017 12:09 AM
To: Virginia Association of Blind Students list
Cc: Marc Canamaso
Subject: Re: [VABS] nova

Michael:

Yes in fact they do charge you to use their printers. That would be an 
interesting thing to find out if they charge for embossing documents.

Thanks again,
Marc A. Canamaso
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