When you refer to the states, I would imagine that you are referring to the state rehab agencies. State rehab agencies are focused on employment, and if they are purchasing computer equipment for a client, it is most likely for employment related uses, and like it or not, most employers are using Windows based computers. Andy "I'm pretty good at drinkin beer."
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of heather kd5cbl Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 6:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: please don't turn this in to a debate, just need information I am a very knew Mac user and feel that our state rehab departments are favoring the windows based machines over the mac machines. Yes, our states have all the money to give there blind consumers all this adaptive technology while in school. However, after school, blind individuals struggle to keep their equipment up to date. I am trying to write a letter about the mac for blind consumers instead of jaws on a windows pc. I wanted to make the case that the states should not be so geared to window based machines for there blind consumers. I just don't no enough about OCR solutions for the Mac like we have Kurzweil1000 for windows. Also I am not sure about the braille translation programs for the macs as we have mega dots or Duxbury for the windows computers. Also, we use victor streams, eclipse reders and for our textbooks so if there is a Mac equivalent, I wanted to know about it. I am trying to convince our rehab department that they need to show both options to their consumers. I plan on submitting my letter at the end of the week to are rehab department. Thank you, Heather -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
