[nfbwatlk] Job hunting

[Debby Phillips]

But Mike, we aren't all techno geeks like you are.  (Grin).  If 
someone goes to a job and applies and gets hired and then finds 
out that the program that they're using won't work with JAWS, and 
that person is basically good with computers in that they can 
turn the thing on, knows how to navigate stuff, but not how to 
fix the problem then how are they going to be responsible for 
finding a solution? I think that's what's different now.  It was 
easy to do stuff before when all one needed to do was make a card 
file with names and phone numbers on it for doing information and 
referral, for instance.  Or having a reader once a week or once a 
month, whatever, was the "reasonable accommodation" you needed to 
do the job.  I don't, for instance, know how to write script that 
is compatible with JAWS.  So when the solutions are easy fixes, 
then they're easy to do, and figure out.  For instance if there's 
a phone with lots of additional buttons, it's not hard to put a 
braille label on the ones you use most of the time.

Watching Seattle play now.  Woohoo!    Debby