>> Hi, everyone.
This is Jessica, I'm going to put my video
on, starting it. Hi, everyone.
And thanks for joining us today.
We are going to be demoing several different
types of assistive technology and I'm going
to let each of our participants actually go
through and introduce themselves.
And talk about whats that their challenges
are and how they use AT to actually support
themselves. So we are going to start with
Cooper Alexander. Cooper, are you having any
challenges? Are you ready to get going?
>> Okay.
Thank you and I'm ready to go.
>> Okay.
Sounds great.
>> So introduce yourself, tell us who you
are, and what you do and how AT, you know,
has supported you and let's go from there.
>> Okay. Thank you very much, Jessica. My
name is Cooper Alexander.
And and I use for the most part of accessibility,
I use a Mac laptop computer and my Braille
sense U 2 which combined I will be I will
be demonstrating this afternoon. So for me
I am I use both of these things for for multiple
tasks throughout my throughout my school career.
From from writing to to from writing papers
to sending emails to professors to various
things. Let me get my screen shared 
and
I can start.
[Screen Reader].
>> Okay, as you can tell, I am now sharing
my screen, so what I'm going to start with
is is using command with tab to get over to
my Word document.
[Screen Reader]
>> And and I hope that you can see that I'm
going to start typing. Accent.
I'm saying my name is Cooper Alexander.
And [Screen Reader].
Knowbility admin to everyone, yes, this session
is being recorded.
>> Sorry about that, everybody, so
you can see what I'm typing should be appearing
on on my screen.
[Screen reader voicing].
>> So and so this is how I write my my school
papers and and anything long that requires
several pages.
So so for me, this comes in very handy because
because anything that is that is long or requires
a lot of writing, writing off of the keyboard
of my laptop, can make my my hands tired because
because not only am I blind, but I have cerebral
palsy as well. So having my note taker [Screen
reader reading] to use my note taker to write
and then also to go back and read what I have
what I have just written for spell check purposes
and for convenience.
It also allows me, for easy speed reading
access, for going through web pages.
So ... let me make sure this is going to work.
So as I hope you can see, this this is the
open Zoom page on Safari, so as I as I scroll
[Go forward, show the next sidebar button]
you can see it scrolling through [Screen reader
voicing] the toolbar
as you can hear the VoiceOver, which is my
screen reader, also also giving that information
to me.
Through speech.
And so so let's go
So this is
>> [VoiceOver]
>> The toolbar. So let me get over out of
that.
So this is basically this basically is [VoiceOver]
the page in Zoom that you're on and it will
it will now be able to just go straight down
the page and have my screen reader read everything
that is that is on the page for for read everything
that is on the page.
If if it's straight text or a link, the screen
readers do not read images and so all it would
display on the Braille display is just the
word "Imagine" or IMG.
And so as you can see hopefully see in here.
I I'm scrolling down my page [VoiceOver] and
and it's it's saying copyright 2020, Zoom,
video communications incorporated, all rights
reserved.
And so so that is basically how how my Braille
Sense note taker can help me with online accessibility.
And and so [VoiceOver] I am now back in my
Word document.
And I'm just going to write 
I hope this all informative.
And if you have any questions for me, I would
be more than happy to answer them. And I think
that is that is all I've got.
>> Thank you, Cooper, super helpful. Sorry
about there's a little bit of, you know, we've
had some trouble with some of the some of
the, you know, screen sharing, I'm not sure
what that's about. But I do have a question
for you that came through and and so so Julianne
asked when on a website how do you parse or
navigate the page to locate content that may
be of interest? Example, what times of landmarks
do you have the screen reader sort by?
>> So I can have it sort by let me get over
to Safari.
We are currently on just the Zoom site. And
so I hope that you can hear this whenever
I do my key command. There's form controls,
web spots, which is basically web spots different
areas of the website. It doesn't differentiate
there between top and bottom. Landmarks, which
that that can be the same thing as headings.
That it scrolls down to different information.
And the navigation, it lets me
>> Link, privacy, legal policies, you are
currently on a link inside
>> Let's me then navigate by by whichever
of those that I choose to at the time.
So so that is just kind of an all for whatever.
So basically I can I can navigate by whichever
of those I need to at the time. Depending
on what I'm looking for.
On that website in particular. If I'm looking
for if I'm on a website that's that's for
for example, I'm I'm booking an airline ticket
or something. I can use the form controls
to get down to each of the little the the
edit fields on the site to enter my information
for the airline ticket or the car rental or
the night at the hotel.
And so that makes that easier to to navigate
by instead of having to to scroll down using
the arrow keys, instead of just having to
scroll down just by using the arrow keys.
So so all of those those all of those specific
items can be used together or apart. It just
it just determines what you are looking for
on which one of those you you pick to use.
I've I hope that I explained that okay.
>> Jessica: I think so. Julieanne, I'm not
sure if I'm pronouncing your name right, but
did that answer your question?
Okay.
She said yes. Okay.
>> [VoiceOver] Julieanne to everyone, I think
so.
>> Jessica: Thank you, Cooper, very much.
[VoiceOver].
We are going to move on now 
and I'm going to start my video back up. Okay.
So I'm back.
We are going to now move on to Amy and Olivia.
Who are going to introduce themselves. Please
remember to to mute yourself, if I will I
will try to mute you as well.
If you if you are unable to. But but Amy,
go ahead and you know take it away, because
you guys are amazing. [Laughter]
>> You are sweet. Hi, everybody, I'm Amy Traynor
and this is my sweet daughter.
>> Olivia Traynor.
>> Olivia. We are so honored to be here with
you guys sharing a little bit about technology.
By trade, I'm an occupational therapist and
assistive technology [indiscernible] so this
is something near and dear to me. Olivia is
a kiddo who struggles with dyslexia. So we
are going to share a video on an app that
she uses that helps tremendously with with
not just the reading, but also the [indiscernible]
expression piece. Kids with dyslexia struggle
a lot with both reading and writing, not just
in language arts but across curriculum. So
we use and love an app by John Johnson called
snap and read universal. What it does, it
allows the user to it allows
>> We're going to show you the app in a video
and then we are happy to answer questions.
But as Olivia said, snap and read is available
as a Chrome extension as well, for using a
laptop, desktop, different hardware than an
iPad.
But the version that we're going to demonstrate
was released in the fall last year and it
it is a game changer, in my mind. Whoever
has the video, if you could if you could push
play, that would be great.
>> My name is Hannah, I'm going to show you
how I use snap and read.
>> All right. We're going to pretend that
I am Olivia's teacher. Olivia, here is a worksheet.
>> Thank you.
>> This worksheet is just an example. Has
some text that will need to be read and then
some answers that will need to be generated.
So we're going to use the iPad, snap and read
app. Let's go back. Show people, if you have
a worksheet, what you're going to touch so
you can actually take a picture of your worksheet
to use.
>> You obviously click the camera.
>> The camera.
>> All right. Now she's going to take a picture
of the worksheet.
>> And I don't really like this picture, so
I'm going to retake it.
Then I
>> All right. Now we have the picture on her
iPad. Olivia, I would like for you to show
us how you are going to read the background
information.
>> Easy. I just click this speech thing.
>> The speaker button. And then it asked move
your finger please, the page does not contain
any text. Would you like to OCR. Here's the
tip, because the picture was taken and not
text that was found electronically, it used
to use the optical character recognition to
detect any text and extract it from the picture.
So yes.
Now it's thinking, thinking, thinking, all
right.
>> Now I click the word.
>> Oops, my volume is off.
>> Computer: Took place between the American
colonists in the country of England
>> Wait.
>> Just a second. Please, if you will notice
that the words were highlighted. As as they
were being read, so that really helps for
people that struggle with reading.
Let's jump ahead and go down to where the
fill in the blanks are. Let's see what the
question is asking us.
>> I click back and then I click this.
>> The revolutionary war was between
>> All right. So the question was read. So
now we're going to complete the worksheet.
>> By pressing the square with the pencil.
>> At this point, all of the tools pop up.
Will you show us the highlight tool?
>> Sure. Here's the highlight tool and you
can pick any of these colors that you want.
You can pick the thickness, you can make it
>> There you go, make it darker.
>> You can make it darker, make it as like
as you want.
>> Let's make it dark so we can all see it,
great. Then you were going to highlight the
answers to that question.
>> The
>> Do it again.
>> That is like that. So I have to highlight
what's here. Oops. How I'm going to use the
eraser. Erase that. Go back to the highlighter.
Go highlight that.
>> There's our answers. Now, can you answer
the questions?
>> Sure. I'll put push also a lot of different
colors that you can pick from.
>> Can you change it to one that we can see
better. Maybe blue or black.
>> I will take that blue.
>> Okay. So then you can
>> Make it a little bit darker, a little bit
bigger font size.
>> 13? 14?
>> A little more, there you go.
>> I will do one more for good measure.
>> Just for good measure, all right.
>> Then you can click it. And your typing
thingie.
>> Keyboard pops up. That's the font so you
can use the keyboard and type it or because
you have the keyboard option on iOS to use
speech to text.
>> So you can speak oops. I don't know what
I did. But I do something.
>> All right. Let's answer the question. What
was it?
>> American call I forgot what this is?
So I go here. Click on it.
>> Give it a second, please.
>> Olivia, give it a second.
>> American colonists in the country of England
is that now we remember what it is.
>> American colonies have click that.
American colonies. There we go.
Push down there and I can move it around if
I want to.
Okay. There we go. I can move it right there.
Country of England. You have to push the type
button every single time you want to type.
I even forget that. Then click it. Then country
of England. Country of England.
And I can do [indiscernible] done.
>> Great. So we'll take a look here at the
toolbar. There's a lot of options that you
can do, draw lines, add notes, and insert
pictures. We are also going to show you, Olivia,
if you wanted to to if this was too difficult
to read, could you push the button that has
the arrow from the square to the circle up
at the tippy top.
>> That one?
>> Next to the speaker button?
>> That one?
>> Uh huh. As you see here, the text has been
leveled. So it's taken complicated text and
used simpler words. All right. Hit it back
again.
>> To
>> Just hit the button again. Yep.
And then we also could do translate if we
wanted to. But now we're just going to [Multiple
voices]
>> This is translate is that now we're just
going to pretend that we're going to turn
this in. Since we're all going to be working
in a digital world, hit that up arrow and
give us our options, we have all of these
options how to embed, how we want to save
it, how we want to share it.
We can email it directly or save it to Google
Drive. You can also access your documents,
close that, Olivia, and go to the documents.
>> Document, document.
>> So this shows what she's got in her drive
right now. Hit cancel.
>> Cancel.
>> So, yeah. What do you think about
>> I really love speech to snap and read.
And because it makes it a whole lot easier
for me.
>> Because you can read it and write it and
share it.
>> Yeah.
>> All right.
>> And I can also do math with it.
>> You can do all kinds of things.
>> You can do anything on this.
>> All right. Thanks for sharing.
>> Bye.
>> Jessica: Oh, boy, yeah, that's I just want
to point out that that Olivia, what's fantastic.
And thank you for demonstrating that for us.
And, also, I just want to say, Amy, that I
mean you've done an amazing job of helping
her to understand how these things work. And
been a great teacher. I think that's the point
here, you know.
>> We're a pretty good team. I'm very lucky
to get to learn what I need to know to help
other kids from one that I love so much. [Laughter].
>> Yeah. Well, thank you so much for being
here.
[Multiple voices]
>> Any questions about that?
>> Are there any questions?
Let's see.
All I got was that was super cool.
You know? I mean, that's really what I got.
So we do have this recorded. So, you know,
other people can come back and look at it
and and get something from it.
At this point, I
>> It was really brief [Multiple voices] she
uses that with. There's a lot more product
demonstration. It's really a robust system.
We just used Google Drive because that's what
she uses to archive her documents and things,
but you can use it with anything connected
cloud storage wise. I encourage anybody to
take a look at it if you are interested. I
can put the website in the chat if we want
to.
>> That would be great.
>> See how [indiscernible] support you all.
>> I did get a question.
My eyes are a little bit off.
Does that work for kids with [indiscernible]
syndrome Irlen syndrome.
>> This is a visual sensitivity, I think of
some sorts. I could be talent mistaken. I
think that there are ways that you can use
snap and read to create some line guides.
I'm not sure if it does it on the app. I know
it does it on the desktop version on the extension
or if you can change the background colors.
Specifically enough. On the app.
But that's a good question. I'll have to look
into that and see if that's something that
would help that. I may be totally off.
>> Well, she's saying it's a brain processing
issue.
>> Okay.
>> So, you know, that's just something to
consider. And I mean we have all of this obviously
in the chat and questions. So so we can all
look into this.
>> Absolutely.
>> Thanks for the questions, though.
>> I appreciate it.
>> Thank you for demonstrating.
Thanks, Olivia.
>> You're welcome.
>> You're awesome. [Laughter].
>> We'll hide us now for the next person.
>> Okay. Sounds good.
All right. Now, we have the other Jessica.
Who is going to join us.
And talk about JAWS a little bit and I'm going
to let you, you know, introduce yourself and
take it away and if there's questions, I will
I will, you know, let you know.
>> Can everyone see and hear me okay?
>> Yes.
>> Awesome. So my name is Jessica. I'm a student
at MSU, studying special education.
And I primarily use my laptop with JAWS. Which
is a screen reader similar to what Cooper
was using on his Mac. It is there's sorry,
I'm getting a bunch of notifications, I got
distracted.
>> That's okay.
>> Can you guys hear me?
Sorry, can you guys hear me? I just got muted
and unmuted a couple of times?
>> Yes, we can hear you.
>> Hello?
>> Yes, we can hear you.
>> Okay. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
Okay. So yeah I'm going to just start doing
I have a couple of things pulled up that I'm
going to show with my screen reader.
Sorry, I'm getting a lot of notifications,
I think Jessica might be doing something in
the background and distracting me a little
bit. I also have really bad ADD. Sorry about
that. I'm going to get started.
I'm going to show you some different things
that I use my computer for in the English
class that I took last year. So I'm going
to start my screen share.
So so JAWS is a [indiscernible] [Cutting out]
NVDA that does almost the same thing. If you
have a visual impairment and you are interested
in trying [indiscernible] NVAD is [indiscernible].
Sorry.
[Audio cutting out].
All right. My screen share should be up right
now, I'm going to tab to the first item. So
right now I'm at this play called raisin in
the sun. You guys might have heard of it.
Hopefully you can see that right now.
I read this play for my English class last
year and as you can see it's really long,
I think over 100 pages.
So I can navigate by page. [Screen reader]
But that would really take me forever.
So there's a couple of hacks that I can use
that makes it easier. The first thing I'm
going to do is insert plus exit. That it is
going to take me through the headings of the
document.
[Screen reader].
>> All right. Act 2. Now I'm at Page 82, that
was really super easy because that way when
we have one section of the play that we are
going to read, I don't read it for a couple
of days, I can pull it up and go to act 2.
Another thing that I can show you is how to
find links. You are not going to find links
in very many Word documents. But in this document
you will, because under the table of contents,
there's a quick link to take you to every
section. I use insert plus F 7 to do that.
That will work on any web page. [Screen reader].
>> I'm going to click on act 3. Now I'm on
Page 136.
I really liked this, it helped me navigate
the document pretty quickly. I'm going to
close out of this now and go to the next part
of my English class that I use all the time.
[Screen reader].
>> Okay. So this is a paper that I wrote about
the play. And the biggest thing for me for
this paper was formatting. There's a lot of
different things that you can do in Microsoft
Word to format your papers and any of you
who have ever been a student know that you've
got to have all of these special like settings
if you are going to do MLA formatting or APA,
whatever it is.
You are going to set your margins and your
spacing. One thing that I'm a huge fan of
is headings. I love headings because they
help me navigate really quick. So I'm going
to set the title of my page right now as a
heading. So you can see how I navigate through
Word without using the mouse.
[Screen reader].
>> Okay. Here's my title right here, portrayals
of discrimination and A Raisin in the Sun.
So as you can see I used my arrow keys to
get to the front of this line, I'm going to
select it. [Screen reader].
[indiscernible] for style. [Screen reader].
Now, I'm going to go to the bottom of that
so what I can do now press there's only one
heading, so it's not going to announce it.
So the essay is mostly just paragraphs. Being
able to set those styles is super helpful.
I do that when I make notes and a study guide
for myself all the time.
So I'm going to leave this open in case anyone
wants to ask any questions about that. I'm
going to switch over really fast to how I
use Outlook, I'm going to show you the email
from MSU about going back to school and being
safe. [Screen reader] sorry about that. Defining
the student experience and expectations.
So I'm going to scroll to the top here. [Screen
reader].
All right. This is a long email. I have gotten
so many emails that say basically the same
thing. Let's say I'm wondering about what
if I want to live on campus, what can I do
about that? This email was designed really
well for accessibility. Because MSU does a
great job of that. Again insert [screen reader]
What if I want to live on campus or what if
I don't. I can't remember. [Screen reader].
So now I'm all the way down in the middle
of this email and I don't have to read any
of the stuff that I already read. This is
the information specific to me.
I don't usually use this the first time that
I read an email, but let's say I'm coming
back to it a couple of days later. I'm looking
for a certain type of information, this is
really helpful. Basically, long story short,
headings are my best friend.
But I don't necessarily have to use headings
to navigate.
I use my arrow keys a lot. I can use tabs
which will take me through different elements
on a web page.
Someone asked a question about landmarks earlier
and what your screen reader identifies. For
me, JAWS identifies any landmark that's properly
coded in HTML which basically means like there's
no typos in the website. Because people have
to write out what the website is going to
look like. There's no typos in that.
Then I can get through, I can find frames,
regions, and search boxes and buttons and
links and all of those things using the tab
keys. So those are the three things that I
set aside I wanted to show today. I wish that
I can do a little bit more with D 2 L, because
that's a big thing that I use for online learning
but I'm not taking any summer courses right
now. I'm just working.
So if anyone has any questions, I'm happy
to pull other stuff up, too, whatever anyone
is interested in learning about JAWS, fire
away if you have any questions at all.
>> Does anyone have any questions [Screen
reader]
Okay. So I did get one question. What are
the frames?
>> Okay. So a frame is not on every website,
but some web designers will decide to use
them to separate content.
[Screen reader]
The way that I would the way that I would
find a frame is by pressing M and it might
say like video player frame or advertisement
frame. So it's on some websites. It's basically
just a type of land mark. That same landmark
could be called a region or it could not be
marked at all and could be really hard to
find. Really depends on the way the website
is designed.
>> Okay.
Something let's see ... okay. Something that
well, this is different. But okay. Something
that came in, what are the biggest challenges
you run into when accessibility isn't a focus
from the content creator?
And how do you best overcome that?
>> Okay. So most of the time accessibility
is not the focus of the content creator. And
I say that because I work as an accessibility
tester and I see that a lot.
Sometimes I can't overcome it. If a web page
is not coded correctly, I might not be able
to close a link, I might not know what the
link is, I might not be able to even read
any of the content on the web page. Like at
that point, I'm very fortunate that I do work
as an accessibility tester and I can write
really fancy worded reports to the website
creators and say this is a problem.
Also, I am very good at being friends with
customer service and technical support. Being
like, can you redo this for me because I can't
do it myself.
For PDFs, a lot of time I use something called
[indiscernible], I run it through, 60% of
the time it will scan it into a text format
that works for me. Sometimes PDFs work, but
other times I have to put it through [indiscernible].
Sometimes I do just have to rely on sighted
people. Because like the thing about my screen
reader, it works great provided that everything
that it's interacting with is designed to
interact back with it. But sometimes my screen
reader doesn't speak the language of
Speak the language of a poorly coded website.
Like Java. If you have a bunch of JavaScript
buttons I'm not going to read those because
my screen reader doesn't read them. There's
a lot of challenges. Not really a cut and
dry. Kind of a case by case thing.
And I think the biggest skill that you can
learn, aside from technology, is being innovative,
problem solving and being really, really friendly
to people. Because you're going to have to
ask for help and you want them to like help
you and you don't want to them to feel like
you're being a burden. Because you're never
a burden.
But they're not going to see it that way.
So it's kind of like working the system a
little bit.
[JAWS].
>> What was the name of the PDF software you
mentioned? It's called Curdswile [phonetic].
If you are a student at MSU possibly other
universities you can get it for free. Basically
you put it in there and scans it into [indiscernible]
into the format that you [indiscernible] the
format you can do it in I think that you can
do it in an audio MP3, too. Then I also just
put it in the [indiscernible] document because
I like that best. There's also a free website
called RoboBraille.org. I think it's dot org.
I haven't used it. It does almost the same
thing. Not as reliable. But basically you
paste the URL or you attach the file that
you want to be
You attach the file that you want to be converted
and it will convert it for you, send it to
your email address in audio or Word.
>> Jessica, do you have that website link?
>> RoboBraille?
>> Yeah.
>> Let me let me see if I can pull it up just
to make sure that I'm doing the right thing.
[Screen reader].
Okay. It is RoboBraille.org. So like robot.
>> Okay. Great.
Thank you so much. That was super helpful.
>> Thank you.
>> I appreciate your time.
>> Thank you so much, I really enjoy doing
stuff like that. So thanks so much for having
me.
>> Of course, thank you.
Okay. So now we're going to move on to our
final I think we have a video. And it's from
Kira. I'm going to pass this on to Mark, because
he's got the video, I believe. And Kira gave
us something that we can show to the entire
group. So so here we go.
Hi, guys, I'm Kira. I'm going to show you
the note taker today. I found out about this
project my junior year of college and I absolutely
loved it. I always struggled with keeping
up with my professors during lectures. They
would always talk super quick and I found
myself missing very important information.
I used to try to record on my phone and I
would always get confused on where they were,
what PowerPoint they were talking about. So
this really helped.
Me org my lectures and be really successful.
This is the home screen of [indiscernible]
audio note taker. I would always start by
importing my slides. Google Slides or PowerPoint
slides.
So this is what one of my projects looked
like. So as you can see over here on the left,
I uploaded the PowerPoint slides for that
lecture.
So as you can tell, all my recordings for
that one slide are in one spot, which was
very helpful because finding listening to
one slide or understanding a slide, I could
go back to just that slide or listen to everything.
So when I would want to record a slide, I
would just click on the audio part and press
record up here in the top left corner. And
during the recording, you can see that there's
little bars, these bars indicate when the
professor or teacher is talking. If there's
blank spaces usually like a silent pause or
whatever. If there's a huge pause in the lecture,
you can kind of skip through that.
Which is nice to kind of save time. As you
can see I have this pink. You can highlight
different audio colors which is super awesome.
If you are in the middle of the lecture and
something super important that the professor
says you can highlight it. That's those controls
over here on the right. I will show you how
to highlight it.
Highlight over the audio and you would just
click either do the number two or click over
here and it will turn it blue. Which is super
nice, then you can kind of organize your thoughts
if you need to come back.
You can also type over here. Sometimes I would
type some of my notes out. While it was recording.
So I could just go back and fill in the blank.
As you can see over here, too, you can do
different fonts. You can fold, different bullet
points, also text colors as well. For things
that are important.
So as you can see, you can kind of match them
as well, too.
And so not only can you import slides, but
if you need to import audio, images, different
things like that, you can also export this
to your app on your phone. I found that the
computer version is a lot better. Than the
app. But but whatever is easiest for you.
And then once the recording was done, you
would just file, save, you can just open it
back up at any time and you can just press
play to relisten to your lecture. So I will
go ahead and play just snippet so you can
see how it is. [Lecture audio playing].
>> So that was just a little snippet of what
it's like. This professor talks quieter than
some of my other ones, but the audio is very
well sometimes it's a little frustrating because
it can pick up typing. So I just got a little
mat on my computer to help with that.
But other than that, that's [indiscernible]
and audio note taker. If you guys have any
questions, please feel free to ask Jessica.
I will be more than willing to answer any
questions.
There's a lot of different things that you
can do on here, too. That's just what I used.
But there's so much more that can be done.
So check it out. It's an awesome product that
really helped me. Have a great day.
>> So we love Kira, because she's fabulous.
I do see Anne that you asked a question about
the actual spelling of the name of the app
and audio.
You know, I'm going to have to ask about that.
So let me get back to you about that.
I will.
Unless Mark, did you pick it up? Because I
I did not actually pick it up.
Mark, are you there?
>> I'm here, I'm sorry. I will type it into
the into the chat.
>> Okay. That's great.
Let's see. Any other
>> Also, there was one more video from her,
if you wanted to share that.
>> Oh, yeah, let's do that. We've got like
nine more minutes. Let's do it.
Sonocent.
>> I'm also going to show you snap and read
just like Olivia. She's definitely more of
a pro at it than me. Uses a lot more features
than I do, but I found this very helpful when
I was writing my papers in the beginning of
college. I struggled with organizing my thoughts.
Kind of structuring my paper. For it to make
sense.
So here I will show you one of my projects
that I did. So as you can see, I had my topic
and different quotes to kind of help me get
those ideas down or get those different quotes
I possibly could use under that.
So I will show you guys a little example.
I will do one on COVID 19 because I'm a nursing
major.
All right. So I'll make different headers.
So I'll do symptoms. As my say this is my
first topic of my paper.
So I will then use this key called with the
A and then I will highlight over what I want
to add. So it will come up right here on the
side. So I would add different quotes or different
research articles that I would find.
Once I add those, I would tab them over to
kind of organize my thoughts. I like everything
organized so it makes sense. Once I have those
tabbed over, just super helpful, super nice.
You can also, one thing that I struggle with,
too, a lot is is my eye tracking and reading
the right words.
So I also use this feature right here. So
it kind of highlighted where I was reading.
So I wouldn't so I wouldn't skip a line or
a word, which was super helpful for me. Especially
reading very big articles with a lot of words.
So that was also helpful.
You can also have it read aloud to you, which
Olivia showed you.
>> [Reading highlighted text].
>> So that also helped me, too, especially
if I didn't know a word or wasn't feeling
like reading today. Another thing that I absolutely
loved was being able to to put this over into
my Google doc so I can write my paper.
So it was super easy because I could just
click and drag my things over.
So if I had like a quote, I could just drag
it over. Especially if it was super long,
it was super nice, then I could go ahead and
write my paper, have all of my thoughts organized,
which was awesome. One of my things that helped
me a lot during college was my sources.
I always had a hard time putting my sources
together, this really helped me out. Put it
in the correct way. And so we have MLA and
APA. As a nursing major I used APA a lot.
My professors were kind of strict about that.
This was nice, I could drag it over to my
reference page. So if I had my references,
I could just drag it over here and it was
all set and ready to go.
So that's just a little bit more on snap and
read. Like I said, Olivia is much more of
a pro than I am. But let me know if you guys
have any questions.
>> Thank you.
So wow. Yeah. I'm kind of blown away. You
know, honestly, I'm still learning myself
about technology. So for me this is all incredibly
helpful.
But I want to thank everybody who participated,
all of our panelists.
If you were here, thank you. We will have
this recorded, we'll, you know, succinct it
so it's a little bit more well, succinct,
I guess is the best way to put it.
And, yeah. Are there any questions okay. There
are questions.
Let's see.
>> How do you spell the PDF software reader?
Let's see.
Was that okay. So that was from Jessica. Jessica,
are you still here?
It looks like you are.
Can you hear me?
>> Okay, can you hear me now, sorry?
>> No, that's okay.
I just got a question about [Multiple voices]
>> I will put it in the chat, Curdswile [phonetic]
sounds right. That's a problem that I have
a lot, if it's not something that I can look
at with my [indiscernible] I don't know how
to spell it. [Laughter].
>> Okay. So [Screen reader].
>> Yeah. Okay.
>> [Indiscernible].
>> Okay. Fair enough.
We can actually look that up and figure it
out.
Any other questions?
While we're still here. We've got just a few
more minutes.
I just want to share something that that someone
I actually adore said and she said, I found
it very helpful to have these amazing advocates
talk about the apps and assistive technology
that they use, their symptoms and what the
app or tech helps them do. So so thank you
all very much.
