Can you use the Ada to help? Are you in the us or elsewhere? Richard
> ----- Original Message ----- >From: "kim lookingbill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "'Braillenote List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:13:22 -0500 >Subject: RE: [Braillenote] loaner pool >Hi: - I wouldn't even dare ask my employer for a braille note, although >I really would, and could use one at work, I had enough problems just >asking for them to spend money on a $300 adaptive product, where I had >to write a memo of reasonable usage explanation for the expense, let >alone, try and ask them to spend a little over $5,000 for an adaptive >product that probably could really serve me well in my daily work >routines. So you see some employers are not so understanding. All the >best. - Kim >Kim Lookingbill >Blast From The Past >Sundays, 16 to 19 UTC >Backstage Pass >Thursday 0 to 1 UTC >http://www.interactive.acbradio.org >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary >Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 11:58 AM >To: Braillenote List >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] loaner pool >It is a shame that the same standard dos not apply to the sighted >employees, who can cost a great deal more than we do. >Gary >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Andy Baracco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 1:19 AM >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] loaner pool >> Hi Lisa E. >> If that were the case, no blind person would ever get hired. >> Employers don't hire blind people as it is because they fear the >> expense. If a >blind >> employer needed a screen reader, scanner with OCR, and note taker with >> Braille display, and they had to buy two of each, I can pretty much >> state with authority that very, very few blind people would be hired, >> except, perhaps by the Federal Government. >> Andy >> At 03:16 PM 4/11/04 +1000, you wrote: >>>Hi Listers, >>>Lisa has a good point about whose users who are deafblind. My next >> question would be aren't employers supposed to be responsible for >providing >> accomodations for people who are blind or deafblind or regardless of >> the disability? Employers need to understand how important how vital >> technology is to people who are blind or visually impaired. In my >> opinion employers need to provide two pieces of technology in case one >> devices breaks down. If they'd think about it they'd realize there >> other >employees >> have different ways of communicating they can write handwritten >> notes, my can email something to the boss, they have different ways of >communicating. >> Why should the blind or visually impaired person be reduced to only >> one way of communicating written language? I know I'm a big baby out >> here in the tropics where getting technology for my job wasn't a >> problem since my boss who is blind is in charge of the program where I >> work and we work >with >> kids who are blind. So having to f! >>> ight for accommodations was not an issue for me. I just think >>> employers >> and employees need to sit down and come up with strategies to address >> how the employee will handle the job if the technology is in need of >> repair or something. It should not have to be the employee's >> responsibility to figure out how he/she will survive without having >> the Braillenote. I >think >> often employers think if I buy this one device for thousands of >> dollars I will have accommodated this person. They don't stop to >> think that people who are blind can communicate in other ways through >> writing without just using one piece of technology. It would be nice >> if PDI would establish a loaner program but in the meantime >> Braillenote users and employers and state agencies and schools >> everyone need to seriously think about how and what they will do when >> the piece of technology isn't working. I think >this >> needs to be addressed before the device is even purchased. I didn't >> mean to get off topic here I just w! >>> ant to encourage people to think and it shouldn't be just us the >>>Brail lenote users and the PDI staff having to think about this >>>problem. It >> would be nice if everyone could work together on this problem to help >> form a solution. >>>Thanks for reading. I'm not trying to start any major discussions or >> anything I just wanted to share my thoughts. >>>Lisa >>>___ >>>To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >>>http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >> ___ >> To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >> http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
