[nabs] using blackboard

[Dornetta]

Hi Ashley,
My school currently uses Desire 2 Learn (D2L) which works perfect. This past 
summer one of my classes or instructors used blackboard feature for my 
sociology  class and I can say it was a pita (pain in the $$). It was not 
assessible and I was useing JAWS 11 point something.  I had to go to the 
I.T. department and have them to extract all of the course materials that 
used that feature in order for my to complete which was not bad since when 
they extracted it...it also gave me the answers so no complaints from me 
there. :-) It was the quizzes  which only had small point values but helped 
out a great deal with the major tests. :-)  I have an suggesstion though, 
have you tried useing the JAWS feature insert + F3 which will give you a 
list of html elements like block quotes list, buttons lists, anchors list, 
edit list, form fields list, etc... just hit B until you get to button list, 
and enter and a box will appear with all the buttons that are on the page.
Hope this helps,
Netta
"Just because you are blind, does not mean you lack vision"-Stevie Wonder
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "NABS Student Advocate Editor" <editor.acbstudents at gmail.com>
To: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>; "Discussion list for 
NABS,National Alliance of Blind Students." <nabs at acb.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs] using blackboard


> Hi Ashley,
>   I graduated in May, so haven't used Blackboard since last fall or
> so (last semester of undergrad I did student teaching so had no reason
> for Blackboard). Anyway, I was always able to post on discussion
> boards and such; I think i had JAWS 8 on my computer though. So, as
> sometimes happens, maybe older versions do provide more accessibility.
> You could always give it a test run if you're concerned; try accessing
> the features from your other classes that used Blackboard and see if
> you have the same issues. Just a thought.
>
> - Caitlin
>
> On 11/16/10, Ashley  Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I use jaws 11 now but will soon have 12.  Do tests and discussion forums
>> work alright on it?  Jaws could not click on the buttons in the past.  My
>> limited use this semester to locate class assignments and documents has 
>> gone
>> alright.  But I have not used the other more interactive features in this
>> version.
>>
>> Ashley
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