[blindlaw] 1l summer internships and assistive tech

[Steven Johnson]

It really needs to be formally requested as a reasonable work accommodation
regardless of whether or not you are bringing your own software or having
them purchase etc.  To simply believe that one can install the software on a
company's computer should go through the reasonable accommodation process.
Most companies have very strict guidelines and policies on outside software
installation.  If you want more info on the accommodation process in its
entirety, go to the Employees' Guide to Requesting and negotiating
Reasonable Work Accommodations at the following:
http://askjan.org/Eeguide/index.htm


Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Laura Wolk
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 6:45 AM
To: Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: [blindlaw] 1l summer internships and assistive tech

Hello All,

I am sure this has been raised before, but I am wondering if anyone has
advice regarding 1l summer internships and assistive technology--namely, how
to address the elephant in the room of the expense of the technology versus
the time period during which I will be working at a particular place.

Does anyone have advice on how to address this, or the issue of potential
discrimination that is always inherent when dealing with the short term
hiring of a person with a disability doing more or less dime-a-dozen  grunt
work? I confess that i don't know much about the application and
interviewing process--we've only just been able to legally speak with our
career counselors--so I apologize if some of these questions are rather
routine. I wanted to go into my first appointment with my counselor as
prepared as possible.

I own copies of all the tech I need and, in undergrad, this is what I would
use for internships, but I have heard that people in the legal profession
tend to be not so amenable to this approach. Are there particular types of
summer jobs where the intern's responsibilities lend themselves particularly
well to a totally blind assistive tech user other than research positions?
note that I am not currently working with OVR because I am going to school
out of state and so the two states are currently both fighting me on not
wanting to open a case with me.

any advice about how to address this in the internship process would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Laura

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