[Athen] [EXTERNAL EMAIL] saving comments for JAWS access in ABBYY FineReader

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That is exceptionally helpful, thank you Jeanna. I will make a note of this
and share it with the student. She can pass the suggestion on to her future
instructors.

Wink

On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 4:26 PM Turay, Jeanna <jturay at ccu.edu> wrote:


> Hi Wink,

>

> I just saw this.  We have a student who is blind that works with JAWS in

> Blackboard as well.  I don’t know what projects you have to grade, but what

> our instructors do for our student is download the paper in Word and put

> comments into it with “Track Changes” on.  He said that has worked for him

> using JAWS.

>

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>

> I can try and find out more from the student if it will help you navigate

> with your student using JAWS and Bb.

>

>

>

> Feel free to reach out to me directly if you’d like: Jturay at ccu.edu.

>

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> I have a student who is blind in my graduate class who is a JAWS user and

> cannot access comments in the gradebook In Blackboard made on their

> submitted written projects. The version of Blackboard that CUNY uses does

> not provide access to the comments on graded material.

>

> The student asked me to send a separate file of the comments by email

> and/or grade their written project in Microsoft Word instead of online in

> the gradebook. If I just provide the comments, they are no longer linked to

> the text where the corrections belong. Removed from their context, the

> comments don't make a lot of sense. I downloaded the student's project &

> proceeded to do a redaction with comments in Abbyy FineReader 15.0. Abbyy

> FineReader allows me to make the comments using Dragon

> NaturallySpeaking which is something I can't use in Blackboard either.

>

> Abbyy FineReader allows for a number of different types of export file

> types, none of which include the comments. Do any of you have any quick

> ideas or suggestions on how to export the comments and save them so I can

> send them back to the student? Do you know if JAWS will have access to/read

> the comments? I spent 4 hours on this so far and still have 10 more papers

> to grade. I want to make sure the student gets the information that she

> needs but I can't spend any more time trying to figure out how to enforce

> the file to do something.

>

>

> Any tips or suggestions are welcome! Thank you in advance.

>

> Wink Harner

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