How VO-friendly is Blackboard with Safari?

2013-08-24 Thread Jamie Pauls
Greetings, all: I teach a music appreciation class at a local community college in my area. This semester, I am required to use Blackboard in the instruction of my class. Fortunately, I am not required to use many of the functions of Blackboard. A very basic use of the system is all that is

Re: How VO-friendly is Blackboard with Safari?

2013-08-24 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi. I would like to know this as well, as my girlfriend is possibly getting a mac and has to use blackboard. Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com IOS and Macintosh User support, Windsor area Sight Substitution Centre On 2013-08-24, at 11:51 AM, Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: How VO-friendly is Blackboard with Safari?

2013-08-24 Thread Greg Aikens
I can't speak to the accessibility from an instructor's point of view, but both my grad school and current employer use blackboard as a way of posting info. Most things are accessible, even though some may be cumbersome. Finding files to download and announcements are fairly simple to do.

RE: How VO-friendly is Blackboard with Safari?

2013-08-24 Thread Jamie Pauls
: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg Aikens Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 12:06 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How VO-friendly is Blackboard with Safari? I can't speak to the accessibility from an instructor's point of view

Re: How VO-friendly is Blackboard with Safari?

2013-08-24 Thread Scott Berry
Hi Jamie, I amn a student who uses Blackboard on a regular basis. If your college or university keeps on the versions of Blackboard honestly I wouldn't see any problems. It's aweful accessible in Windows like you say. When I go to upload my assignment today I'll try uploading it with

RE: How VO-friendly is Blackboard with Safari?

2013-08-24 Thread Jamie Pauls
Subject: Re: How VO-friendly is Blackboard with Safari? Hi Jamie, I amn a student who uses Blackboard on a regular basis. If your college or university keeps on the versions of Blackboard honestly I wouldn't see any problems. It's aweful accessible in Windows like you say. When I go to upload

Re: blackboard and Safari

2011-03-02 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
with blackboard and Safari. He's trying to learn the mac and actually do coursework at the same time, and having a bit of a truffle with this part. I'm simply not familiar, and didn't find anything solid enough in the archives. If anyone knows of either a quick tutorial, or is familiar enough

Re: blackboard and Safari

2011-03-02 Thread Joseph Norton
You might also try NVDA. It's speech is not the best, but, you don't have to rely on Serotek's servers to be available. - Original Message - From: Bejarano, Rafael P. beja...@hsu.edu To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:47 AM Subject: Re: blackboard

Re: blackboard and Safari

2011-03-01 Thread Kevin Chao
experience. Sorry for the total non-answer, wish I could be more helpful. Justin On Feb 28, 2011, at 7:45 PM, Carolyn Haas wrote: Hi everyone: I have a student who needs to access coursework and videos with blackboard and Safari. He's trying to learn the mac and actually do

Re: blackboard and Safari

2011-03-01 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
your student can access it in Windows. Rafael Bejarano On Feb 28, 2011, at 9:45 PM, Carolyn Haas wrote: Hi everyone: I have a student who needs to access coursework and videos with blackboard and Safari. He's trying to learn the mac and actually do coursework at the same time, and having

Re: blackboard and Safari

2011-03-01 Thread Kevin Chao
Safari and Blackboard work ok for the most part. There are some issues, but can be used to some degree. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Bejarano, Rafael P. beja...@hsu.edu wrote: I also would be very interested to know if Blackboard can be accessed with Safari. Angel

Re: blackboard and Safari

2011-03-01 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
: I have a student who needs to access coursework and videos with blackboard and Safari. He's trying to learn the mac and actually do coursework at the same time, and having a bit of a truffle with this part. I'm simply not familiar, and didn't find anything solid enough in the archives

Re: blackboard and Safari

2011-03-01 Thread Sarah Alawami
and videos with blackboard and Safari. He's trying to learn the mac and actually do coursework at the same time, and having a bit of a truffle with this part. I'm simply not familiar, and didn't find anything solid enough in the archives. If anyone knows of either a quick tutorial, or is familiar

blackboard and Safari

2011-02-28 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi everyone: I have a student who needs to access coursework and videos with blackboard and Safari. He's trying to learn the mac and actually do coursework at the same time, and having a bit of a truffle with this part. I'm simply not familiar, and didn't find anything solid enough

Re: blackboard and Safari

2011-02-28 Thread Justin Ekis
could be more helpful. Justin On Feb 28, 2011, at 7:45 PM, Carolyn Haas wrote: Hi everyone: I have a student who needs to access coursework and videos with blackboard and Safari. He's trying to learn the mac and actually do coursework at the same time, and having a bit of a truffle

Re: blackboard and Safari

2011-02-28 Thread Greg Aikens
accessible at all, but I have no direct experience. Sorry for the total non-answer, wish I could be more helpful. Justin On Feb 28, 2011, at 7:45 PM, Carolyn Haas wrote: Hi everyone: I have a student who needs to access coursework and videos with blackboard and Safari. He's trying