Re: Prices for adaptive equipment overseas

[Richie Gardenhire]

I can only speak for my state.  In Alaska, the marketshare for the Mac 
has cut into the Windows market by some 15%, and is increasing.  
Several high school students who are blind or visually-impaired have 
requested that they receive training on the Mac, and our counselors 
throught the state are listening.  I don't know if the Alaska Center 
for the Blind will offer that training, come the next semester, for if 
they do, they'll have to hire someone from the Lower 48, or hire Bill 
Craig, from Sitka, who is another Mac user, besides myself.  And the 
only way that I can see the center offering the training, is for the 
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (Blind Services) to appropriate 
money to the center for that training, which I don't see happening any 
time soon.   I am, however, encouraged that more and more requests are 
being received by DVR in Alaska.  At the Alaska Independent Blind 
convention, I will be demonstrating VoiceOver and have offered to give 
attendees the opportunity to experience it firsthand, and like we do at 
the store, I will set up a machine where students can practice some 
techniques which I will show them, to give them a "test drive" of the 
Mac.  Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska.

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