[humanser] Drivers license requirement for employment

[Ashley Bramlett]

Karen,
you keep sending blank messages to the list. why don't  you use a real 
computer, not your imperfect I phone.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Karen Rose
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 8:34 PM
To: Human Services Mailing List
Subject: Re: [humanser] Drivers license requirement for employment



Sent from my iPhone

> On Dec 27, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Sandy <sandraburgess at msn.com> wrote:
>
> What I did was to put the forms in to my Pac Mate, which did make back in 
> the olden days we found feelings with typewriters by counting horizontal 
> and vertical spaces. It took for ever grown them accessible to me.  I then 
> had to sync them back to the desktop and reformat them.  Finally I was 
> told that it was hard to know what I had checked, and I did agree one 
> couldn't skim quickly through the forms.  The forms I speak of are known 
> as Mass. Standarized Documentation Program and developed by a nonprofit in 
> Central Massachusetts.  Unfortunately, my agency elected to begin using 
> their forms.  The Mass. Commission for the Blind recent director and 
> others, myself included, had discussions with the developer and other 
> social workers in my area of the state, working at agencies using these 
> documents, had the same inaceessibility issues.  Then my office spent one 
> million on ProFiler, which was inaccessible to the point I couldn't find 
> where to enter information.  Well, the sighted found the ProFiler hard to 
> learn, "stupid," and recently switched to Ehana.  Ehana appears to be 
> accessible and made for mental health people, and it helps you find the 
> DSM codes for your Axis diagnoses.  The other forms developed in Central 
> Massachusetts have recently become usable.  Anyway, never thought of 
> typewriter, but wouldn't help me find edit fields.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Sandy
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Karen Rose" <rosekm at earthlink.net>
> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 7:09 PM
> To: "Human Services Mailing List" <humanser at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: "Human Services Mailing List" <humanser at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [humanser] Drivers license requirement for employment
>
>> Sandy – I do not know your specific technology but I wonder – would it be 
>> possible to type your notes on an old-fashioned typewriter and then scan 
>> them into the inaccessible program
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Dec 27, 2013, at 4:03 PM, Sandy <sandraburgess at msn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Justin,
>>>
>>> Accessibility is the bigest hurdle I have encountered.  For some time I 
>>> made copies of agency forms I adapted to use with Microsoft.  When we 
>>> went to electronic records, I was not permitted to dictate notes and the 
>>> records, as well as forms we used put out by another vendor, they and 
>>> the health records were both inaccessible.  After a few years of me and 
>>> others dealing with t

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