[NABS-L] Question about Accommodations

[Ella Yu]

Hi Julia, I had a similar situation come up in one of the classes I had
(not music), and I talked to the professor about it. Depending on the
situation, the professor may be able to find (accessible) alternate
readings that cover the exact same thing, but I know that's not always
possible. My suggestion would be too run OCR and just see how accurate it
is, because OCR results certainly vary depending on PDF quality. Is there
any chance disability services could OCR the document and then fix the
errors or something like that, rather than just doing OCR and giving the
document straight back to you with no corrections?

On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 8:28 AM Julia LaGrand via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am a freshman in college and have a question about reasonable
> accommodations. I am a music student and a lot of the texts I need are not
> already available in accessible formats. Students are reading scans from a
> variety of textbooks. My inclination is to simply perform OCR on these
> scans (I typically use VoiceDream Reader), but I do fear that I will miss
> some things this way. I've talked to Disability support, but there only
> suggestion is that they could run OCR for me, which doesn't really change
> the situation. I'm curious what people would recommend. To be clear, class
> readings may come from three different books per class period, so other
> students are not expected to get the actual books.
>
> Thank you so much for the help in advance,
> Julia
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