Donna,
Congrats! You got the Mac. Hopefully it'll be easier next time.
On 4/28/13 13:59, Sandi Jazmin Kruse wrote:
hi. I will admit i have not followed your case closely Donna, but in
case you are ever in the situation again, why not simply stating the
obvious? if the mac goes down the blind person can install the os her,
or him self, as far as i know of we cant do that with windows.
Sometimes i think that having people believing in blind persons and
the mac is frustrating, but there are light at the end. At least if
you live in denmark, part of that is the lower price, but it is
simply also that the system is more stable and if it goes down you can
install it again your self.
best
sandi
written from her Mac mini II who have not failed her yet! :)
On 4/28/13, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote:
Hi Eric,
Well, the short answer is that we went over his head.
We filed a complaint with the state, which resulted in a conference call
with the boss of the people who made the decision. the guy was kind of
frustrating. Initially he accused me of letting my personal biases
interfere with making a decision that was in the student's best interest, he
still insisted that Windows is the better choice b/c that is what 90% of
employers want, and when I said that if she ever really had to, she could
install Windows on her Mac, he said that no blind person should ever try to
run an installation of Windows on a Mac, because it's too difficult. I just
ignored the latter, but I thought it said a lot about how little he knows
about blind Mac users. He was also very hung up on the fact that MS Office
isn't accessible on the Mac, and I had to spend some time talking about why
that wasn't a problem.
I think mostly the conference call was a show for the benefit of his
underlings, so that it didn't look like he just overruled them. So we went
through all the points, that we do have Macs on campus, that I can provide
training and support, that a Mac is an appropriate choice for her career,how
her exposure to a Mac was pretty much even with her exposure to Windows and
JAWS, etc. Toward the end of the call he pontificated about how using an
iPad or iPhone isn't the same as using an actual Mac--which of course she
already understood--and then said that given that having a Mac would not
present employment issues, and given that her experiences with both systems
are basically equivalent, they could go ahead and by the Mac.
So that's how it happened. I'm thrilled for the student, and hoping that
the next time someone in the state requests a Mac, just maybe, we have made
a small in-road.
Cheers,
Donna
On Apr 27, 2013, at 5:36 PM, eric oyen <eric.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
WOOT!
I bet that was definitely frustrating to start with. So, inquiring minds
want to know… what convinced the VR rep to acquiesce to your demands?
-eric
On Apr 27, 2013, at 6:37 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
Hi all,
for those who followed my earlier inquiry, we had a meeting with the VR
powers that be yesterday, and after a very long, and sometimes
frustrating conversation they agreed to purchase an MBA for my student.
She and I were both thrilled. thanks again to all who gave input.
Cheers,
Donna
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