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 I used Latex exclusively!
@kfjelsted @mastoblind @main I’ve been thinking about learning Latex but I’m not really sure where to get started and thought it was more for math, which I’m not really doing yet.
@RareBird15 @mastoblind @main Latex https://tug.org/ excels at all document formatting most CSCI textbooks are written in Latex and the key is the number of templates and packages available. For bibliography production the BIBTEX tool makes formatting perfect citations and footnotes a breeze! https://www.bibtex.org/
@kfjelsted @mastoblind @main Thanks for this. Looking into it now. As a CS major, it’s probably not a bad idea to start learning before I really need it.
@kfjelsted @mastoblind @main Working on learning LaTeX now. Created my first basic document already using VSCode, MiKTeX, and the LaTeX Workshop extension for VSCode. What tools do you use?
@RareBird15 @mastoblind @main I used TexShop on the Mac but you can use any platform including Linux. If you like I can zip up and send you a couple of papers I wrote in school as well as the template I used for papers so you can see examples. You should have my email address so send me a note as to where you want me to send the examples.