[blindlaw] 1l summer internships and assistive tech

[ALBERT ELIA]

Generally, I have offered to use my own equipment. If that won't work for some reason, the employer will and must provide accessible equipment (JAWS/etc.). Most employers are happy to allow you to use your own machine for a summer. Those who aren't comfortable with that are usually the employers who are big enough that they can afford to buy you JAWS without blinking.

You may also be able to get them to install JAWS on one of their machines with your license (presuming your license permits it).

Good luck.

--Al

On Oct 18, 2013, at 7:45 AM, Laura Wolk <laura.wolk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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