CVAS Guides for Blind Users

CVAS Registration Guide

You register for CVAS by completing four forms. This can now be done from within the CVAS app.

To help you to get up and running on CVAS as quickly as possible, we can pre-register you. Please send an email to the Help Desk at cvas@ctu.int with your first and last name, a username and password, and your email address and smart phone number. You will receive a return email that will outline the next steps to complete your registration, which are also below. The email will also include the Terms and Conditions for the use of CVAS, which would have been accepted on your behalf.

If you do not wish to be pre-registered, go to Step 1 in the various registration guides below.

If you ask to be pre-registered, you will also receive an email as outlined in Step 6 below. You will then need to follow the remaining steps in the Registration Guide and then download and install the CVAS app on your mobile phone. If you prefer to change your password to one that will not be known to CVAS staff, once you have completed the CVAS registration, you can use the "Change Password" option on the log in screen. To locate this option swipe down on the log in screen until the voice over reads "Forgot password button".

If you prefer to complete the registration forms, you will do so by using the commands applicable to your screen reader, which are noted in the step by step instructions below to complete the forms.

Note:

CVAS will generally work with the Safari browser that comes with Mac devices and will work with the Chrome browser, if using Chrome as your default browser. However, if you do not have Chrome on your device and experience issues registering using Safari, you will first need to download Chrome from the App Store in order to register using the step by step instructions below.

Step 1 - Form 1: Used to enter a User Name and Password of your choice

1. After you have read the guide and you press enter on the Register link, you will be taken to Form 1. The registration link that will take you to Form 1 is located on the login screen of the CVAS app.
2. If you experience difficulty registering with Safari and you do not have Chrome downloaded on your device, when your cursor is on the Register link, press Control, Option, Shift and the letter M at the same time and a list of items will become available. Press the down arrow until you hear “Select Open with”. When you hear “Open with”, a list of items will become available and you press on the down arrow until you hear “Chrome”. Press Control Option Space and your computer will open Form 1 in Chrome.
3. When Form 1 opens, your cursor will be on the first edit or text field and Voice Over (VO) will say “User sign up, dialogue, with three items, User name required, the name you will use to log in”.
4. Press Control, Option and the left arrow together three times and you will hear “Enter a User Name that you would like to use with this program”, which is the first of three lines of instructions regarding your User Name.
5. Then press Control, Option and the right arrow together and you will hear the second line of instructions. Repeat and you hear line 3.
6. Press Control Option and the right arrow together and you will be taken to the first text field and you will hear “User name required, the name you will use to log in, required invalid data, edit text”. You will then enter the User Name of your choice, taking into account the instructions you will have previously heard.
7. Press Control Option and right arrow and you will hear “Check Name button”. Press Control Option and the left arrow or press Shift Tab and you will hear the user name you entered.
8. If it is not correctly entered, you will need to re-enter your User Name and check again to ensure your it is correctly entered.
9. Once your User Name is correct, press Control Option and right arrow and you will hear the first line of instructions related to the Password you will be asked to enter.
10. Then press Control, Option and the right arrow again and you will hear the second line. Repeat and you hear line 3.
11. Press Control, Option and the right arrow and you will be taken to the next edit field and you will hear “Password required. The Password you will use to log in. Required. Invalidate data. Secured Edit Text”.
12. Enter the password of your choice and then press Control, Option and the right arrow and you will hear “Show Password Button”. Press Control, Option and space and then Control, Option and the left arrow you will hear the password you entered.
13. If it is not correctly entered, re-enter the Password you want to use and check that you have entered it correctly.
14. Once your password is correct, press Control Option and Space at the same time and you will hear “Hide Password”.
15. Press Control, Option and the right arrow and you will hear “Cancel Button”. Press Control, Option and the right arrow again and you will hear “Next Button”. Press Control Option and Space bar and you will be taken to Form 2.

Step 2 - Form 2: General information to be entered

You will complete Form 2 by entering the information requested into ten edit fields. Your cursor will already be on the first edit field. After you have completed the edit field, press on Tab to move to the next edit field and so on. The names of the ten edit fields you will hear are as follows:

1. First Name
2. Last Name
3. Email
4. Address Line 1
5. Address Line 2 (This input field can be left blank)
6. City
7. For State/County: Enter N/A
8. For Postal Code: Do not enter anything, leave blank.
9. Country Code: Enter TT
10. PSTN Number: Enter the 10-digit mobile phone number (starting with the Trinidad and Tobago area code, 868) for the phone onto which you will download and install the CVAS app.

Having entered the information into the edit fields, the form is complete. Press Tab three times and select NEXT to continue to Form 3.

Step 3 - Form 3: Subscription services.

CVAS does not have any subscription services available at this time. Your cursor will already be on NEXT, so simply press enter on NEXT to continue to Form 4.

Step 4 - Form 4: The terms and conditions for your use of CVAS.

1. Form 4 opens. You then press Shift Tab together three times and then Control Option and left arrow together twice until you hear “Terms and Conditions of Use of CVAS and its related websites” and then all the Terms and Conditions will be read to you, which will end with the date 8th May 2020.
2. Then press Control Option and right arrow and you will hear “Accept Terms and Conditions”.
3. If you accept the Accept Terms and Conditions, press Control Option and right arrow and you will hear “Accept Terms, Check box, Unchecked, check box”.
4. Then press Control Option and Space together to check the Accept Terms and Conditions box and you will hear “Accept Terms, Check box. Checked check box”.
5. Press Control Option and right arrow three times until you hear “CREATE USER”. Press on that button to continue.

Step 5

A new screen will then appear and you will hear “Success” and other dialogue that will say you should go to your email inbox.

Step 6

Search your Inbox and Promotions folders, and if it is not there, your Junk Mail or Spam folders for an email from donotreply@puc.network, with the subject New User Verification. If you wish to verify the validity of the email, please contact cvas@ctu.int.

Step 7

If the email is in your Junk Mail or Spam folder, drag the message into your Inbox in order to read it properly.

Step 8

When you open the email, you will hear “Your first name. Thank you for signing up with our service. Please press on the link below to continue the setup process. Press here to continue the setup process.”

Step 9

Press Control Option Space together on the link in the email and a new screen will appear with a message of Congratulations, which will say, “You have now been successfully registered as a CVAS user. However, to use the service, you must download and configure the CVAS app”. Press Control Option Space on the link in the email, which says “(START USING THE SERVICE)” and you will be taken to the CVAS website home page. From there you can return to the CVAS app. However, for now please continue to the next guide on using CVAS.

Guide for Using CVAS

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