[blindlaw] Internship Problem

Derek Manners dmanners at jd16.law.harvard.edu
Fri Oct 24 17:01:37 UTC 2014


You might contact JAWS, explain that you've got an internship at a firm and see if they can give you a 1 month trial?  Obviously don't tell them about the pirated copy lol. 

Best
Derek

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> On Oct 24, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Sexton, bruce via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rahul,
> 
> I lived in India for a year and understand what you mean about pirated
> software. Perhaps it would help you to know that NVDA's commands are
> essentially the same as JAWS.  I have not used it in a year or so, but I did
> have problems finding an equivalent to the JAWS cursor.  Perhaps someone has
> an update on that.  
> 
> 
> -Bruce 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rahul Bajaj
> via blindlaw
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 7:55 AM
> To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [blindlaw] Internship Problem
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am scheduled to intern in an intellectual property firm next
> January. Even though I haven't discussed the modalities with them yet,
> a friend of mine who has interned there before told me that they are
> averse to the idea of allowing their interns to use their own machines
> due to privacy concerns and ask their visually impaired interns to
> install a copy of the screen reading software of his/her choice on the
> firm's computers. Here in India, most people do not use original
> copies of screen reading software because they're ridiculously
> expensive and beyond their economic capacity. As a result, most of us
> buy pirated versions of software like JAWS from organizations that
> sell them because there's no other way to perform any substantive or
> concrete task on a computer. Now, since the firm that I'm planning on
> interning at is an IP firm, they do not allow interns to install
> pirated copies of screen reading software on their machines. At the
> same time, they're not willing to purchase an original copy of the
> software for me just for the sake of a 4-week internship. One possible
> solution could be to use an open source software like NVDA, but I
> don't think it would be feasible for me to acquire a nuanced
> understanding of NVDA in such a short span of time since I have never
> used it before or that it would allow me to use some advanced features
> as efficaciously as JAWS.
> So, I'd love to know your views/ suggestions for grappling with this
> challenge. I want to be able to chalk out a clear solution before
> discussing this problem with the firm.
> 
> Best,
> Rahul
> 
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