Hi again Jill,
I wanted to say thank you for the info you linked to about citation manager accessibility. I'll keep that doc with the keystrokes for Word in mind. Here's the post about Zotero again. In my mind the most useful part might be the (possible) offer of help from a screen reader user who has managed to use Zotero. I'd love to hear about it if your student still seems to be inclined to use a citation manager after you meet with them. I hope it works.
Adina
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 15:48:34 +0000
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] Reference/citation management tool and JAWS?
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Not sure if you gotten any feedback on this yet...
But I'm a graduate student and started using Zotero last fall.
It's not entirely accessible, but it got me close enough so that I could keep track of my sources, add some custom details as necessary, and generate citations.
FWIW: I use NVDA, but I doubt the experience would differ all that much.
Happy to provide any other insight that could be helpful.
Also inclined to find a more accessible option to not have the mental gymnastics of remembering which unlabeled field corresponds with each piece of metadata.
Thanks!
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Sent: Nov 10, 2022 04:45 PM
From: Jill Cirasella
Subject: Experience with citation management tools and screen readers?
Hi,
Do you have any experience with, or knowledge about, using citation management tools with screen readers? I'm meeting next week with a blind student who wants to learn how to use Zotero or another citation management tool, and I'm doing some research to prepare. Thus far, I've found slides from a 2017 Accessing Higher Ground presentation, these step-by-step instructions for using Word's Source Manager with NVDA or JAWS, and this list of accessibility issues in Zotero. I will continue looking for info online, but if anyone on here has any wisdom (or even any secondhand anecdotal information), I'd be hugely appreciative.
Thanks!
Jill
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