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 @kaveinthran @mastoblind @main I haven’t been a student in decades, but recently found an iOS app called Essayist. It’s been designed to be accessible with VoiceOver but is made for sighted people also. It sounds like the kind of thing you’re after.
@mfeir @kaveinthran @mastoblind @main Any way you can send me a link? I searched the app store for “Essays” but I didn’t see an app with exactly that name. I got suggestions for a bunch of AI essay writing apps.
@RareBird15 @kaveinthran @mastoblind @main It’s actually called “essayist” like artist.
@mfeir @kaveinthran @mastoblind @main Ah, okay that explains why I couldn’t find it. Should have had JAWS read by character there lol.