Well, I'm in south africa, and, I don't know of any such programs over here.
And wherever will I find a mac, to firstly learn how to use and secondly, do
the sudgested vidio in a windows dominated country? Out of everyone I
personally kno, there's one, yes, one! mac user and he's 500 miles from my
location.
Regards,
Brandt Steenkamp
MSN/Windows live: brandt...@live.com
Google talk: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com
AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com
Skype: brandt.steenkamp007
----- Original Message -----
From: Cheree
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 1:00 AM
Subject: Re: convincing the sighted provider of my tech that mac's the way to
go?
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" <brandt.steenk...@gmail.com> 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: brandt...@live.com
Google talk: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com
AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com
Skype: brandt.steenkamp007
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