A glimpse into my world

[LollipopViolet]

Thanks to Amber for inspiring me to do this. I thought you all might like to read about one of my absolutely fantastic days.

So my mum drives me into uni, and we get stuck in the traffic jam from hell. I'm a perpetual early bird and a worrier, so this was awful, traffic as far as my dodgy eyes could see . Anyway, we get to uni bang on 9am, and luckily my group hasn't gone into lecture yet, the lecturer isn't there, so all is OK.

It's a small group, just the 4 of us who make up a crew of 5 (one lad was ill). I like these sessions, I can see what goes on and they're practical. I'm very practical so I always enjoy them.

We were in the sound studio, and as I had taken on the role of sound engineer, I had to set all the equipment up. The lecturer is great though, giving full, clear instructions, which helps enormously. When it comes to clicking little buttons on-screen, it goes like a game of pin the tail on the donkey (I even said that, I don't mind joking about my eyes sometimes). But again, lots of patience gets us there. Things like:

"Up, left a bit. Next button to the left. That's it, click there!" really, really, helped, and I don't know if he realised how helpful he was being.

So that's a Technical Instruction session from the slightly VI point of view of me

And an example of very good teaching, I think.

glad to hear you had a good day lollipop! I took my mum to Ikea!!! Hellish!!! (not quite the same I know, sorry )

Sounds like a good day - and a good teacher! It's always interesting to read the challenges other people face in the day to day stuff!

Monstermansmum - I'm hoping no-one ever tells my mum where our nearest IKEA is!

Lollipop, "role of sound engineer", "set all the equipment up", well done to you!
Can you educate me a little more. How much can you see? How did you manage to set up all the equipment?
Sorry being a bit thick, but genuinely interested.
So happy you have a good lecturer, it makes all the difference.

Excellent!

I'm wondering if they could get a tactile screen overlay/drawing table pad that connects to the computer with a touch-sensitive screen/interface, so you could feel which button is which rather than have to rely on being told? They could use a sort of braille system or just different textures in a set pattern so you'd always know which was which. Or a system that says the name of the button first, then allows you to click it once you know what it is?

Wonder if there is such a thing? There ought to be. It would help a heck of a lot of people.

Well in really simple terms, my vision is at about 6/15 to 6/18 now, so what you might be able to see at 18 metres, would have to be at 6 before I could. Then there's nystagmus and a low visual field to deal with. So while I can see quite well, it can get fiddly. I'm not sure what they can do really, it's just this particular computer I've found is tricky, because of how the stuff on the desk is. The other problem with it is you don't log in on it, it's an auto log-in so anything they put on there would affect everyone.

What setting up meant was flipping switches to turn on all the recording stuff lol to quote the uni website about this studio:

"Sound Studio
Our sound studio consists of a control room and soundproofed voice over booth, using a talkback system to communicate between the two. Our control room is equipped with specialist Digidesign audio hardware consisting of a variety of mixing decks and recording software for voice and music recording."