[Nfb-science] Fwd: [nabs-l] College issue, please help!

[Mariya Vasileva]

Sent from my iPhone

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> From: Kayla James via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Date: September 2, 2015 at 13:34:03 CDT
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Kayla James <christgirl813 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] College issue, please help!
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> 
> I am taking an Accounting course at my community college in Illinois.
> I am having a similar issure but with a different program altogether.
> Have you gone to technical support? If you have and it still doesn't
> work out, maybe you and your professor can sit down and discuss
> different alternatives to do your work until you can find another
> program that can help.
> 
>> On 9/2/15, Mariya Vasileva via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> Hi, I started college at Normandale Community College in Bloomington,
>> Minnesota last week. I am taking a pre-college course in math in order to
>> refresh my my high level math skills. This course uses a new website that
>> may sound familiar to you, Aleks spelled ALEKS, not Alex like the name. It
>> is accessible as far as navigation, but with there new interface, doing the
>> problems is cumbersome because while the buttons are labeled, the access to
>> there content is impossible with NVDA, VoiceOver, or JAWS. Meaning, when it
>> comes to actually activating the button and putting in a fraction or some
>> thing of that natre, for example, is cumbersome. I and the Normandale staff
>> have told these people these issues, and they did put me on the older
>> interface that was supposedly more accessible, which, it is as far as
>> equations, but when it comes to intering fractions or sqare roots, for
>> example, using the buttons for them, or entering the answers in to the box
>> indicated, is impossible, still. Not to mention, when it comes to graphs or
>> number lines, I have to have some one work with me on those particular
>> problems because those areas are definitely accessible. Do you guys have any
>> other alternatives to doing math with a website like the one mentioned above
>> that is a lot more accessible than this one, that you have used to do math
>> in college successfully? That would be greatly appreciated.
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