[Menvi-discuss] Please help needed to accommodate music student

[ethnerd]

I would suggest that you contact accessibility at apple.com , as Mac computers
have built-in adaptive software.  Check out this page:

http://www.apple.com/accessibility/

I quote: "Apple includes assistive technology in its products as standard
features — at no additional cost. For example, iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Mac
OS X include screen magnification and VoiceOver, a screen-access technology,
for the blind and visually impaired."

The Mac lab at the school may already have everything your student needs to
access the software. If Windows had the same commitment to accessibility as
Mac, that might be bad for Freedom Scientific's business, so I would not
rely on them for information regarding Mac computers.

jeanie

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Chela Robles <cdrobles693 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Check out dancingdots.com JAWS works with windows platform so you'd
> need to provide a windows computer, but here is the cool thing,
> Dancing Dots has workstations that come preloaded with what she needs,
> and anyone on here can correct me if they are so inclined to do so.
> Trumpeter Chela Robles from Concord, CA.
>
> On 7/5/11, Dianne Moore <moored14 at lcc.edu> wrote:
> > This Fall semester, one of the students whom I serve will be taking the
> > college Music Technology class.  This class is housed in a Mac lab where
> > students use Finale, Pro Tools, and Pro Logic.  This student uses JAWS as
> > her screen reader yet Freedom Scientific tells us that JAWS is not
> > compatible with Mac nor with Pro Logic.
> >
> >
> >
> > This student and I have already planned to have a reader/scribe in class
> > with her; however, she will need to learn these programs for the course.
>  Is
> > it possible for her to use these programs?  What do I need to know to
> > accommodate her appropriately?  How does she need to prepare herself?  Do
> we
> > need totally different software programs for her?
> >
> >
> >
> > I am not knowledgeable in music ed, but I am responsible for providing
> her
> > accommodations.  Can any of you give me some direction?  I am currently
> > researching the three programs via goggle and their companies' sites and
> > support links..attempting to learn as much as I can about these three
> > program accessibilities.
> >
> >
> >
> > Additionally, the course instructor and the music dept. chair are
> currently
> > on vacation and unavailable for me to learn more about what this student
> > needs to be able to do going in to the course and what the student will
> be
> > doing with these programs in the weeks of the class.
> >
> >
> >
> > Meantime, time is passing and I need to organize effective
> accommodations.
> >
> >
> >
> > Urgently seeking direction,
> >
> >
> >
> > Dianne Moore, MA
> >
> > Reader Services Coordinator
> >
> > GB204-32
> >
> > 517-483-5263
> >
> > Office of Disability Support Services
> >
> > Lansing Community College
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> --
> "To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you
> forever. It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be sophisticated,
> but when you get the two of them together in a way people can relate to,
> then I think you're on to something. You want the sophistication to lie in
> the purity of the sound, the beauty of the arrangements, and the quality of
> the performances."-Trumpeter Chris Botti
> --
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