I think, Greg, that it is an excellent idea. Anything that can add to
opportunities of meaningful employment for the blind or visually
impaired people or dyslexic is very welcome. It's worth exploring and
moving forward.
With best wishes
Simon Cavendish UK
On 8 Feb 2008, at 16:12, Greg Kearney wrote:
Iain Murrey of Curtin University in Perth and I have been discussing
an idea of training the blind and dyslexic to be Macintosh systems
administrators. Curtin University already offers a course in Cisco
administration for the blind ending with the the student taking the
Cisco exams.
Given that the Mac now has a built in screen reader in both MacOS X
and MacOS X Server we feel we could offer such training to the blind
and print disabled.
Curtin might offer courses leading to the various certifications
Apple offers. These courses would be tailored to the needs of blind
and dyslexic students, they would, for example have their training
materials in braille and recorded formats. Tests would be
administered in braille or orally and so on. As Curtin University
already has experience in this sort of training worldwide it would
seem to be the logical place to develop such training for the disable.
So what do you think is this something for which there would be an
interest?
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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