Re: Top Ten list of tools and techniques I used to successfully complete my first college semester as a blind student

2011-12-24 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello David, Best of luck in your PhD pursuit. The only advice I can offer regarding working with tables is to suggest you consider taking a lesson or a series of lessons from Anne Archie Robertson via Skype. They've developed some good procedures for dealing with the accessibility quirks and

Re: Keynote 5.1.1 Accessibility question [Was: Re: Top Ten list of tools and techniques I used to successfully complete my first college semester as a blind student]

2011-12-19 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi Bryan, To be honest I've noticed no discernible difference(s). however, I simply opened a powerpoint presentation, went into slideshow mode and then discovered that it was still lousy. Sory I can't be more possitive, Dónal On 19 Dec 2011, at 02:59, Bryan Jones wrote: Hello Donal,

Re: Top Ten list of tools and techniques I used to successfully complete my first college semester as a blind student

2011-12-18 Thread David Griffith
Congratulations and an extremely interesting read. As of last Thursday I m recommencing my PhD after 18 months break. When i suspended due to ill health I was an exclusive Windows user, now I have switch to the Mac. There are are areas of your experience that I have not considered and I

Re: Top Ten list of tools and techniques I used to successfully complete my first college semester as a blind student

2011-12-18 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Bryan, This is a superb commentary. I think this should appear somewhere on Mac-Access (mods?) and form the basis of a wiki style resource for students. I'll now give you this from the other side of the fence. As some may know, I'm a lecturer (assistant prof. to use US/Canadian Parlance) so

Re: Top Ten list of tools and techniques I used to successfully complete my first college semester as a blind student

2011-12-18 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Bryan, This is a superb commentary. I think this should appear somewhere on Mac-Access (mods?) and form the basis of a wiki style resource for students. I'll now give you this from the other side of the fence. As some may know, I'm a lecturer (assistant prof. to use US/Canadian Parlance) so

Re: Top Ten list of tools and techniques I used to successfully complete my first college semester as a blind student

2011-12-18 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Thanks very much indeed Benjamin, I tried one or two of these frameworks under SL years ago but with no joy. I'll certainly look at this one thanks for passing it on. On 18 Dec 2011, at 16:06, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Dónal Fitzpatrick

Re: Top Ten list of tools and techniques I used to successfully complete my first college semester as a blind student

2011-12-18 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I tend to use LaTeX as well. I'm obtaining a Computer Science Degree, of which UML (Unified Modeling Language) plays a massive role throughout all six semesters. Also, I was kind of forced into LaTeX, but it's actually really useful when you learn how. It also works for a lot of

Keynote 5.1.1 Accessibility question [Was: Re: Top Ten list of tools and techniques I used to successfully complete my first college semester as a blind student]

2011-12-18 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Donal, Thank you for your feedback. I'm interested in your comments regarding the accessibility limitations in Keynote. I'm not yet a heavy Keynote User, but I did notice that the recent 5.1.1 update included a mention of improved accessibility and am wondering if the slide show or any

Top Ten list of tools and techniques I used to successfully complete my first college semester as a blind student

2011-12-17 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello All, I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone on this list who shared your school experiences with me and offered good advice on tools and techniques. Now that my semester is over, I want to give back some information about some of those tools and techniques in hopes somebody else