[access-uk] Re: first day at work placement
- From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:14:31 +0100
Justin,
Good for you to take this work placement and I do hope that it works out
well in the coming days. You will gain confidence and also probably
skill, so hang in there and keep us updated!
--
Carol
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Justin R
Sent: 24 August 2004 20:42
To: access uk post
Subject: [access-uk] first day at work placement
hi everyone,
yep, it was my first day at my work placement with Ipswich Borough
Council's Economic Development team.
Well, it's been a difficult day as, for most of it, i didnt' get
supplied any headphones at all! I'm still waiting for the ones I
ordered online myself. anyway, I had an induction with one of the staff
members who asked, if I had everything I needed computer wise. i
mentioned that I'd need the headphones for speech output so I can have
webpages, articles red to me and, I can have red back what I've written
down. She wasn't sure if the Sound Card had been enabled on my computer
but, she'd have to check.
I was given a work station with a 14" monitor with all the usual stuff
but, not a lot of desk space. a bit cluttered in my view. anyway, it
was very hard having to read several pieces (one for a poster I'm doing)
just using all the zoomtext features without speech. i had to
considerally slow down app reader to a crawl to try and keep up with the
highlighter around the text, even then, i had to go back often and
repeat each sentence near enough. The lighting made it hard to see the
screen. doing posters, designing them and so fourth is very hard a
small screen with magnification. I had to reduce magnification meerly
for looking at the layout but, that was hard to do given the lighting
and so on. I'd have to bump up magnification if I wanted to type
anything as, I couldn't see what I was doing for the life of me! so,
fortunate I hadn't had much reading to do today! I did get the
headphones, an "hour" before my first day was over. Well, i got to try
out the headphones. at first, no sound... great! sound card not
enabled? I played with the volume control once i found it and....
thankfully, there was sound coming out. So, I configured the speech
finally and I'm glad as, it's a god send given the size of monitor and
the nature of work I'm doing right now.
So, it's OK really from what I'm given technology wise. there may be
hard copy written material where I might have to use my magnifier,
otherwise, it's all computer based work.
Lets hope I get something more interesting to do than poster designing
<groan>.
Justin
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