Cheree Heppe here: That depends on where you are located. Some Canadian provinces have low interest loan and other programs to obtain equipment.
Some U. s. states do this also, but there seemed to be an inordinate amount of red tape involved in using the service. The other way would be to circumvent the usual rehab funding altogether and work up your proposal, then make the rounds of service clubs, such as Lions and whatever you have there to raise the necessary assistance. I would also approach the Apple stores and repair shops to see if you could obtain a refurb or get some sort of discount, design a payment plan that results in the equipment after you have paid it all, etc. If worse comes to worse, write your member of parliament or congress or whoever might be able to leverage more immediate results. Some people have approached banks to see if there are low interest loans or churches to see if there are special assistance funds. Regards, Cheree Heppe P.S.: You may want to be skilled enough with your proposed equipment to be able to demonstrate that you can use it effectively. It may help if you can get someone to video you using the equipment in various mods: E-mailing, word processing, web serving, and use that video when you do your presentations for funding. Naturally, when doing the video and the presentations, you will want to look the part and be as nicely turned out as the situation calls for. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 1, 2011, at 10:53, "brandt" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there folks, > > Due to the weakness of our currency, I am reliant on outside assistance for > most of my tech. Now, where would I find a compelling blog post or article > giving reasons to go to Mac instead of the expensive/(illegal if you don't > want to pay) combo of Pc + windows + expensive screen reader, > Jaws/Window-eyes/hal/etc. The reason I'm asking is because I'm fed up of > cracking *cough cough cough* screen reading technology. > > Folks, help here, don't sue or report. > > Regards, > > Brandt Steenkamp > > MSN/Windows live: [email protected] > > Google talk: [email protected] > > AIM: [email protected] > > Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 > -- > 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.
