Dave, I feel your pain!! My feet are stuck deep in your shoes. If I never have to deal with a state agency for the blind, I will most certainly MAKE HEAVEN and I won't need to present for Saint Peter's interview at the Parley Gates. To this day, the tellers at the bank still ask me for a driver's license. I hand them my cane; they are startled! Then, miraculously, they wake up and ask me for a state ID. When I tell sighted folks that they are horribly absent-minded, they get upset. Yet, they have not succeeded in proving me wrong! For an individual who's duty is to help you find a job to have sent you to an interview requiring the presentation of a valid driver's license not only blows my mind off the top, it knocks off my socks and shoves me under the bridge.
Currently, I am doing the best I can to run a DME business independently; however, I stand a strong chance of losing it in a few weeks!! New regulations kick in and, assemblying the compliance packages required will cost me nearly $10,000! I am a wee, smaller than small business owner, but, the rules are what they are! The materials I need ARE NOT rendered in any accessible format and I have been struggling to fight this for over two years with no luck. I get tossed from one person to another and it's going nowhere. Right now, I am training to be a coffee barista with the hope of being able to open a coffee shop by the end of the first or second quarter of 2017 although sooner is my personal preference. I am also taking an entrepreneurship program class; it is a six-week class. When its over, I will have 15 minutes to MAKE A PITCH for my coffee shop before a SHARK TANK of some kind. If I succeed, I'll get some FREE SEED funding to help me get started. November 12 is the magic day and date! In the meantime, I MUST PREPARE some Powerpoint thingie as part of my presentation. I've never TINKERED with PowerPoint and had hoped never to, but now I am stuck! The coffee shop training has been interesting. I have learned so much and I now have a reasonably clear understanding of certain processes relating to the coffee business. Be that as it may, I do have a struggle: I tend to POUR TOO MUCH MILK for steaming when making a latté, or cappuccino. I'm able to STEAM MILK to the correct temperature of between 140 degrees F. and 160 degrees F. with no problems! It's just pouring the right quantity of milk into a pitcher for a small, medium or large cup that still rattles me. I'm trying to use the PASS plan to get the coffee shop going; this is what FORCES ME to go back to my state's agency for the blind! Presently, my counselor thinks I should consider the BEP as an alternative. No, I prefer to be in a freestanding building on a street corner! I have been referred to a self employment counselor and I am waiting with tempered anxiety to hear from this new counselor. Jaws is being shoved down my guts; I've stated that I am in with Window-Eyes and that sounds like German-Italian in their ears. All I need is help to have a particular app scripted for accessibility. I sure hope they'll step up to the plate, not in 12 months or three years, but sooner. I am also checking into Android apps! If I find something there, I may not need the scripting afterall! Well, Dave, what can I say: Just keep on trucking sire! With luck on your side and mine, we'll find the next innovation. Sincerely, Olusegun Denver, Colorado --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
