[Blindtlk] funding for assistive technology

[Peter Donahue]

Good evening everyone,

	Computers for the Blind has next to nonexistent tech support
andrecycles back-dated equipment. We won't touch them with a 10-foot pole.

	The best financial assistance we've found for buying assistive
technology is that we create ourselves i.e. looking for ways to raise the
needed funds and ceasing opportunities to do wo when they come your way. In
the early days we depended on our state agency to buy assistive technology;
the welfare approach. Today we buy it out-of-pocketthe the free enterprise
approach.  We strongly urge others to position themselves to do the same.
Bitter experience taught us that it's far better to be incomplete control of
the buying process than to hand it to others.

Peter Donahue

  

-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ericka via
blindtlk
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2016 9:26 PM
To: S L Johnson; Blind Talk Mailing List
Cc: Ericka
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] funding for assistive technology

Sandra did they only have PCs for laptop? I'm looking for an apple. I don't
get along with  PCs.

Ericka Short
"What is right is not always popular; what is popular is not always right."

 from my iPhone

> On Feb 24, 2016, at 8:38 AM, S L Johnson via blindtlk
<blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello:
> 
> I do not know of any free source for a computer but, there is a very 
> low cost program.  Computers For The Blind 
> www.computersfortheblind.com.  They will sell you a used computer that 
> has been refurbished and loaded with Windows 7 professional and some 
> free software, including screen enlargement magnifier and screen 
> reading software.  A desktop is $110 and a laptop is $150.  I got a laptop
last fall and so far, it is working fine.
> 
> Sandra Johnson
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: justin williams via blindtlk
> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 7:29 PM
> To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List'
> Cc: justin williams
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] funding for assistive technology
> 
> No, it is not for me; the person is not at voc rehab.
> Justin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Chris 
> Nusbaum via blindtlk
> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 7:01 PM
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Chris Nusbaum <cnusbaumnfb at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] funding for assistive technology
> 
> Have you tried getting funding from your rehab agency? Your state may 
> also have a technology assistance program through your department of 
> disabilities or your library for the blind. Finally, you might try 
> getting a grant from a local Lions Club or another local service 
> organization. Sorry I can't help with the cane question; the only 
> source for folding canes I know of is Ambutek (the manufacturer,) which
sells them for about $30 to $40.
> 
> Chris Nusbaum
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>>> On Feb 23, 2016, at 5:00 PM, justin williams via blindtlk
>> <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Does anyone know where to get free laptops, or funding for assistive 
>> technology.  Also, other than the free white cane program, of which I 
>> am familiar, does anyone know where to get free or very cheap folding
> canes?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Just whatever you fine folks know is going to work.
>> 
>> Thanks ahead of time.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Justin
>> 
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