[Blindtlk] Training with screen readers conundrum

[Bonnie Ainsworth]

Peter,

    As a former Government employee, I can assure you that NO agency has a 
uniform screen reader or screen enlarging program use.  What happens is that 
they have a contract they renew with each vender from year to year, so one 
year it may be jaws, another it may be Window Eyes.  This is why working 
specifically for a Federal Government agency can be complex, so it's 
important to touch base personally with the people at these areas of 
employment in your agency of choice.

    For instance, the US Department of Agriculture has what they call the 
TARGET Center.  Their personnel is located in Washington DC.  Much of the US 
Forest Service's databases reside in the Oracle environment.  What I'm 
saying by throwing all this out there is to do your research, target the 
agency you'd like to work for; talk to the personnel to see what it is they 
use, and fill in applications.

    As far as uniformed applications go, we used to use one official form 
when I left years ago.  Things have changed since then, and the resume is 
used.  That shows how long it's been since I left Government employment.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Wolfe" <yogabare13 at gmail.com>
To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Training with screen readers conundrum


Ray and others,


    Thank you for replying to my message on this issue. The problem
Ray is that I don't have any idea of what I'll be doing with a
bachelors of arts in political science with the federal government.
sure I know of what a poli sci professional does just not what I can
do being blind and all is able to do at work.