No problem at all, Tom, and as I said earlier, feel free to forward my
e-mail responses onto the ARRL VEC if that would help.

You know, it gets back to the basic point:   "If there's a will, there's
usually a way!".

I have actually thought about seeing if I could develop a way to use a
scanner to help grade the actual exams, but simply, because of my other
professional work-related obligations, haven't gotten to that point yet.

As you may know, I'm a college professor with a PHD degree.  I teach
Sociology at Ferris State University in Michigan.  Have been full-time
college teaching for the last 21 years, and haven't found an unsolvable
problem yet!

Take care, and feel free to call on me if you need more help.

Best 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

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> Thanks, Tom, for your input on all of this.  Because I've taught graduate
level
> courses at the university level I have some what I might call amused
reactions
> to test grading as I've been doing that for years.  It is rather explicit
in the
> FCC rules as well as the ARRL/VEC's manual that each person is not
actually
> required to grade exams but is required to sign off on them.  This is
> particularly true of those exams graded with templates.
>
> Just as a general informational point, Handi-Hams has braille tests
available to
> VEs I gather upon request.
>
>
> While dealing with print documentation is potentially problematic, there
are
> numberous ways of doing so from the use of readers to the use of scanners
to the
> use of print detection devices such as the PSB system.  Having been an
> audiologist and speech-language pathologist for some twenty years has
caused me
> to have to deal with a large amount of paperwork ranging from the testing
of
> clients to writing client reports to filling out insurahce forms to a
seemingly
> endless stream of federal paperwork for any of a number of reasons.  I
suppose I
> just have a bit of a problem with someone telling me that I can't do these
> things when I've been doing them professionally for a long time.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP, R/D - AU
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html