I wonder if Apple has ever thought about this?  How many computers could they 
sell to the State Agencies?  Seems they need a Liaison between themselves and 
the various State Rehab agencies.

On Oct 11, 2010, at 4:44 PM, EWOUD wrote:

> it should better be a debate.
> there is No reason why windows would be favoured above apple.
> Apple has the possibilaty to  run windows on its machine, therefor its a 
> great alternative.
> windows cannot do that, and the price windows pc with screanreader is also no 
> good, so Apple has to be mentioned when it comes to choices!
> Ewoud
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarai Bucciarelli" 
> <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 11:36 PM
> Subject: Re: please don't turn this in to a debate, just need information
> 
> 
> Hi:
> Good for you! I'm a Mac user as well, and I too feel rehab agencies need to 
> present both options, and let the consumer make up their own mind. The only 
> program I'd ever need to use on the Windows side of things is Kurzweil.
> On Oct 11, 2010, at 8:41 AM, heather kd5cbl wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
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