[nabs-l] Minilab... The never-ending battle

Tue Jul 28 12:12:24 UTC 2009

Jess.
I'm taking all the classes on campus, and they still won't really help  
out with things much.
On Jul 28, 2009, at 4:37 AM, Jess wrote:

> Kevin.
> I disagree with you. I attended SLCC for almost two years and I  
> thought
> their Disability Resource Center was wonderful. On the flip side  
> though I
> attended the Community College of Vermont and I wasn't really  
> impressed with
> their disability services office. Also, I was spoiled by going to a  
> decent
> sized community college the first time I went to college. And, I had  
> another
> opportunity to attend another decent sized community college when I  
> moved to
> Northeastern New York and I also had the same experience as noted  
> above when
> I attended SLCC. They Jokingly call the Hudson Valley Community  
> College the
> Harvard on the Hudson River.  Because the city of Troy where it's  
> located is
> on the Hudson River.
>
> Clinton,
> I'm sorry I can't be of any assistance to you because I never took any
> online classes when I attended SLCC. I did pretty much all my  
> classes on
> campus. Unfortunately, that is the only thing that comes to mind  
> that you
> might have to do. Because especially Freedom Scientific has a lousy  
> track
> record of making needed improvements to JAWS so these online systems  
> like
> Blackboard and myitlab work with their software correctly. We had a  
> friend
> whom before he worked for FS that attended a two year college in  
> Augusta
> Georgia where he's from and he was having  a lot of problems with  
> using
> Blackboard with JFW.  So what I would do is contact both FS and G!W  
> Micro
> tech support and see if they might be willing to make the required  
> to make
> the myitlab online system work with both JFW and Window Eyes. Good  
> Luck
>
> Jessica
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org]  
> On Behalf
> Of Kevin Wassmer
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 9:47 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Myitlab... The never-ending battle
>
> Call Ron Gardner. He could advacat a reader for  you. I am glad I  
> went to
> SUU. They had a great DRC there. It made the DRC at SLCC look bad.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "clinton waterbury" <clinton.waterbury at gmail.com>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 7:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Myitlab... The never-ending battle
>
>
>> I've tried having them e-mail the assignments but the response I  
>> got  was
>> something along the lines of Oh...  We can't get the tests from   
>> myitlab,
>> and the reader thing I also talked to my adviser about and  they  
>> for some
>> reason determined that a reader would not be appropriate  for me,  
>> and that
>
>> I should just go to the computer lab at the drc, so  that's when I  
>> figured
>
>> test it with safari and voiceover, and that's  when I got the same  
>> results
>
>> that I did with jaws.
>> They then tried putting window-eyes on the computer at school, and I
>> could arrow down the page, but someone would still end up having  
>> to  click
>
>> the buttons to go to the next questions, so now I'm fighting to   
>> get jaws
>> 9 back on the system, and I'm starting to wonder what the  point of  
>> it is,
>
>> as I get the same results described in my initial  message.
>> On Jul 27, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Domonique Lawless wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Clinton,
>>> Maybe you can have your teachers e-mail you a word document with the
>>> test in it. This way you can independently take your exams. If that
>>> doesn't work out then see if the teacher can help you find a  
>>> reader in
>>> that particular department.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Domonique
>>>
>>> On 7/27/09, clinton waterbury <clinton.waterbury at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello all.
>>>> I am having an issue with a website/piece of software called  
>>>> myitlab
>>>> that my school uses for submitting assignments and tests.
>>>> I can get as far as being able to answer all the questions on a  
>>>> test,
>>>> but then the submition issue happens.
>>>> I can't even use keystrokes in jaws, window-eyes, and even  
>>>> voiceover
>>>> on the mac of all things to click on the finish button on the
>>>> webpage.  I have to have someone come over and click my mouse for  
>>>> me
>>>> no matter what computer I am on.  The major issues I see with  
>>>> this  are
>>>> 1, lack of being able to be independant with my own school work,  
>>>> and
>>>> 2, not having a way to have someone come over to the computer and
>>>> click the mouse to get it to submit.
>>>> Any Thoughts?  All input would be greatly apprieciated.
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> Clinton.
>>>>
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