[blindlaw] courtesy and JAWS (and other talking office products)

[Nicole Askins]

Direct confrontation. To respond to your question I find that people
appreciate a more direct approach when dealing with disability issues and
then they do signs and rules or regulations. Try a meeting setting and have
on the agenda attention to persons with disabilities or respect for
coworkers around you and bring it up in a non offensive but direct manner.
You may find that there are others who share your same concerns but did not
have a reason to express their discontent.
On Aug 25, 2015 1:30 PM, "Susan Kelly via blindlaw" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Like many governmental offices, my agency is a fairly noisy one - thin
> walls, folks who would yell between offices and cubicles rather than
> sending an e-mail or message, playing of audio disclosure at high volume,
> use of speaker phones at equally high volumes...all sorts of thing that
> conflict with being able to hear my computer.  I have relatively sensitive
> hearing, and thus hate to turn it up to overpower the other audio
> distractions.  Past attempts at using an earbud weren't helpful, especially
> since that made it even more likely that a co-worker would come I and start
> asking for my legal opinion on something before I could silence the
> narration.  Is there a non-offensive list or statement of courtesy
> considerations towards assistive technology users somewhere that I could
> print and post near my office?  How does everyone else deal with this on a
> daily basis?
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