[humanser] special accommodations & Readers

[JD Townsend]

Hello Janice & All:

When I took exams in Florida for licensure and for state laws in 1992 the 
only option was for the use of a reader/scribe.  I did not like it, but at 
that time the exams were not computer based.  It was a pain, but doing it 
that way got the job done.

I continue to use a reader for reading hand-written forms and other 
job-related chores.  Perhaps someday hand writting will be readible by 
computers, but readers continue to be a part of my professional life.  At 
some         tasks a reader continues to be favorable to me over computer 
reading of patient materials, a good reader can skip, skim, and locate, say 
an insurance company name, faster and friendlier.

However, I did sue, along with the NFB, for accessable voting in Volusia 
County Florida, setting a national presidant.


JD Townsend LCSW
Helping the light dependent to see.
Daytona Beach, Earth, Sol System