Lately, I've had to have a talk with 2 of my professors involving different assignments that I needed to complete, but that were too visual for me to do so independently. My history professor wanted us to do an on line geography assignment that involved identifying countries on a map based on a number system. I have news for you people. Yes, my screen reader can read text on my computer screen, but no, my screen reader cannot describe pictures. Therefore, there is no way I could do this assignment on my own. Even if someone helped me with it, they would basically be doing it for me. So, even though I don't reccomend making this a habit, (being blind doesn't make you unable to work) I had to ask for an exhimption. Luckily, my professor was able to grasp the situation, and understood completely. I was planning to offer to do an alternative assignment, but he just told me not to worry about it. Not because of blindness, but because of tipical college laziness, I was happy to hear this.
The other professor was not as easy. This was a psychology class, where we had to learn how to enterpret different graphs and make statistical calculations from them. In this case, I get to spend some extra time in her office before the test going over how to do them. As much as I'm not thrilled with the idea, I'm not going to try to get out of it. Blindness should not give me a right to not put forth an efort. Therefore, I guess I know what I'll be working on for the next couple of weeks.
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