Congratulations on your new mac and on getting a rehab agency to purchase it for you! I hope that more agencies are beginning to realize how innovative Apple is, and that they will start offering students the option of getting macs. After all, a sighted student has the option to purchase any computer they like, so why don't the same rules apply? Olivia "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower", Steve Jobs
On Jun 24, 2010, at 5:59 AM, Allison Manzino wrote: > Hi Josh, > > Congratulations on your Macbook Pro! oh that is just awesome! Congratulations > on breaking through the Jaws barrier as well, smile. I live in New York, and > all my Voc Rehab agency would purchase for me is a Dell running you guess it, > Jaws. I'm so excited for you. Are you the same Josh Kennedy that did a > podcast on Loadstone a while back? I'm sorry for asking, but your name sounds > familiar to me. I think that's why. I hope I'm not getting you confused with > someone else if so, I apologize. I can only hope my Voc Rehab agency will be > as great as yours in contracting with Handytech for my Braillino. BrailleNote > still won't work on my Macbook. Have a great day. > > Allison > > On Jun 24, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Josh wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Well guess what, my mac will be here in five days! The technical person that >> voc rehab contracts with based on my needs for school, and I aalso have a >> sneaky suspician she also recommended the mac because I have been asking for >> a year or so now for voc rehab to get me a mac for a job I turned down a few >> months ago, then again asked for a mac for school so I think also because >> I've been asking and asking for it. >> Anyway it will be here in five days. And she said voc rehab or my counselor >> said they normally don't recommend macs. they usually get people dell >> computers with jaws on them. >> I'm getting a 13 inch macbook pro . it has a 250gb hard drive with windows7 >> home installed with bootcamp. 2.4ghz dual core processor, 4gigs of ram. On >> the windows side I'll use nvda and system access. She called me or rather I >> got in touch with her. she said she was playing with the mac, with snnow >> leopard a bit. she said to me she didn't realise voiceover had all these >> commands so blind people could use it! I think depending on how I like my >> mac then she said depending on the feedback I give her, she will then >> recommend voc rehab get macs for mostof their blind clients in the future. >> so according to her I am the first blind person in my state to get a macbook >> pro or a mac at all! >> I can't wait to get my new mac! >> >> Josh >> >> -- >> Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
