It seems budget is broken into admin, client services, and training. Anyway let 
us get back on topic.  Thanks to all re: mute.  I fixed with it with gestures.  
Each on this list has assisted me in learning Vo   
Julie




On Oct 27, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Jude DaShiell <jdash...@shellworld.net> wrote:

> The huge problem with rehab departments is that many of them spend way under 
> expected percentages on actual rehab.  Lots of management ends up going to 
> Conferences in aweful places like Honolulu Hawaii.  Texas as an example could 
> only provide slates styluses and braille paper for students since the state 
> had not spent the rest of their budget correctly.  I can't remember if it was 
> Dialog Magazine or Mathilde Ziegler magazine that had the report on all the 
> garbage happening around the country but am pretty sure it was one of them.On 
> Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Scott Granados wrote:
> 
>> Well, with the budget cuts and the ressession are there any good well 
>> staffed rehab departments?  Even years ago the rehab department in CT was 
>> substandard.  They had excelent education services for school children but 
>> once you got out you were in the soup pretty quickly.
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 26, 2010, at 8:59 PM, Carolyn Haas wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Scott:
>>> Denver Co, home of the lousy broncos and the lousier rehab department.  But 
>>> hey, we do have some good computers here, and the best ones are still the 
>>> Macs.:)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Carolyn Haas
>>> chaas0...@gmail.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Oct 26, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Scott Ford wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>>    May I as where you live?
>>>> Scott
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 6:38 PM
>>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>>>> Cc: Carolyn Haas
>>>> Subject: Re: Microsoft Office 2011 period
>>>> 
>>>> Heather:  I share your prospective.  I just met with a rehab counsellor who
>>>> insists that there's really no place for the Mac in the work world.  (she
>>>> also insists that since I'm doing ok with my Mac, I don't need a braille
>>>> display.  Guess that's what I get for trying topfunction and be a part of a
>>>> new solution.:)
>>>> 
>>>> This counsellor actually suggested I might want to move somewhere where 
>>>> they
>>>> have the money and clientele to afford to keep up with the new 
>>>> technologies.
>>>> She also basically said no one is going to pay me to do this kind of
>>>> exploration of helping discover and working toward of improvement of
>>>> alternative technologies.  So, I feel more and more like it's mac-vs-pc, 
>>>> and
>>>> conform to the old ways, or you're on your own.  Sorry for venting. Thanks
>>>> for reading.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Carolyn Haas
>>>> chaas0...@gmail.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Oct 26, 2010, at 3:12 PM, heather kd5cbl wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Bill is responsible for that robot they call narrator and he claims
>>>> windows is accessible.  While our friends at Apple, actually have a real
>>>> screenreader built in to their system.  So, Bill is not doing anyone any
>>>> favors by making us, windows users,  go out an by screenreaders worth more
>>>> than their pc computers.  I want to put a blind fold over his eyes and make
>>>> him use his own computer with just narrator, I am sure he would not get 
>>>> very
>>>> far!  Also, anyone who has to use word 2010 with jaws, has to by another 
>>>> msa
>>>> or their job has too.  And the mac users with voiceover, cant use it at 
>>>> all.
>>>> So he is an easy target.  Otherwise, he would have wised up a long time ago
>>>> and had his own built in speech for windows but, he just does not care.  I
>>>> am starting to use open office and pages more and the msword does not 
>>>> matter
>>>> that much anymore.  Heather
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