The question at the top of the list that begs answering
is How, on Earth, does Mr. John Q. Public or Ms. Jane Q. Public
who happens to also be blind, independently get JAWS installed on a Windows
system?
I am talking, now, like the teacher I might have been
back when I was studying for that profession in the late
seventies.
One of my very respected instructors had spent several
years in the country of Thailand and had helped them set up
their electrical worker training program and also had been
instrumental in writing a national electrical code for Thailand.
What my advisor was surprised about was the fact that
there was a major electrical supply house literally right across
the street from the vocational school where they tought
the electrical trades. There was absolutely no professional contact
or networking between the people who worked in the electrical
business and the school. They didn't even know each other's
names.
The point he was making was that you are time and money
ahead to network with local resources as they are familiar with
the area you are training for.
You are having trouble getting a working JAWS
installation. There is probably somebody at some place in the UK
who can do this in their sleep and does it every day for
agencies or clients in the UK who are blind.
What if, for example, the school system uses one of
their servers to image all the JAWS work stations in a computer
lab or similar place? They might let you bring your computer
there and image it along with the rest. Freedom Scientific has
what they call site licenses where they do these sorts of things
for students.
The lab instructors, here, don't know JAWS from Adam,
but they image computers from a master server and can blow a
JAWS installation from cold metal in minutes. You, the student,
just walk in and they tell you where the JAWS work station is
and you log in.
Oklahoma State University has a site license from
Freedom Scientific and I bet there is a similar setup in school
systems or rehabilitation agencies in the UK.
Since you are pressed for time, I wouldn't sweat the
details. Since a job is on the line, I'd at least get started
with a known good system. You will soon be showing them things
they didn't know but first, let's get a working system.
Martin
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