[blindlaw] Internship Problem

[Aaron Cannon]

If you have until January, you should have plenty of time to learn NVDA. It's really not that complicated as others have said, and in large part, very similar to Jaws. You might even find that you like it better. It does happen.

Aaron Cannon

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> On Oct 24, 2014, at 10:55, Rahul Bajaj via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am scheduled to intern in an intellectual property firm next
> January. Even though I haven't discussed the modalities with them yet,
> a friend of mine who has interned there before told me that they are
> averse to the idea of allowing their interns to use their own machines
> due to privacy concerns and ask their visually impaired interns to
> install a copy of the screen reading software of his/her choice on the
> firm's computers. Here in India, most people do not use original
> copies of screen reading software because they're ridiculously
> expensive and beyond their economic capacity. As a result, most of us
> buy pirated versions of software like JAWS from organizations that
> sell them because there's no other way to perform any substantive or
> concrete task on a computer. Now, since the firm that I'm planning on
> interning at is an IP firm, they do not allow interns to install
> pirated copies of screen reading software on their machines. At the
> same time, they're not willing to purchase an original copy of the
> software for me just for the sake of a 4-week internship. One possible
> solution could be to use an open source software like NVDA, but I
> don't think it would be feasible for me to acquire a nuanced
> understanding of NVDA in such a short span of time since I have never
> used it before or that it would allow me to use some advanced features
> as efficaciously as JAWS.
> So, I'd love to know your views/ suggestions for grappling with this
> challenge. I want to be able to chalk out a clear solution before
> discussing this problem with the firm.
> 
> Best,
> Rahul
> 
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