[blindlaw] Internship Problem

[Angie Matney]

I seem to recall that FS used to make available a demo of JAWS that
would run for a certain number of days, possibly for a minimal fee.
But perhaps that was GWMicro and WindowEyes. Sorry, I don't remember
the details, but perhaps you could contact FS and see if they could
provide such a demo version. I do hope you are able to resolve the
issue.

On 10/24/14, Aaron Cannon via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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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