To other #blind #students, what tools have you used to help you format your papers with #APA styling and #citations? My #university provides #Perrla for free to students, but it doesn’t seem to be the most #accessible with #ScreenReaders, at least not the online version. I haven’t tried the add-on for #MicrosoftWord. With the online version, though, I don’t see any keyboard shortcuts, and when you move into the edit box to start writing a paper, focus gets trapped there and it’s hard to get out, so I don’t think it’s the best tool for me. The only other tool I know of is the reference manager built into Microsoft Word, but it seems to have fewer features and doesn’t really help you format your paper like Perrla does, something I was looking forward to since all the APA rules for styling seem hard to remember.
#College #CollegeStudent #accessibility #JAWS #ScreenReaders #writing
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@RareBird15 @mastoblind @main This website has templates you can modify. I usually make mine from scratch because I can work with styles easier then trying to modify someone else’s template, but you can see templates here, including mine. https://pandoc-templates.org/
@WeirdWriter @mastoblind @main I just scanned that list of templates and didn’t see an APA-specific one, but maybe I missed it.
I’d try using the Word template found in here. Hit the button that says, download raw. This should download the template. Or, ultimately, I could also make you one, because I found another template so I can just adapt that to Pandoc, but check out the templates at https://github.com/iamamutt/pandoc-apa/blob/master/pandoc/apa.docx @RareBird15 @mastoblind @main