ah, yes and I think she felt it qualified due to jaws and discrimination against it on machines that vi folks are forced to use for testing machines "> had a clever friend then who wanted to use jaws to take a very high grade ccisco examination he had no help even then in spite of the latif case which some of you may know,..."
If anyone is interested in the case referred to, I have copies of it as well, a glowing example of what the world thinks about screen readers and accessibility!
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To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 11:42 AM Subject: Re: disability and help
This is a little bit too off topic even for me - i'm going to answer because you seem so distressed - if you have a grievence, you can litigate it, get legal aid, find some public interest lawyers yes, they do exist. G On 1/14/11, James Homuth <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Remind me what this has to do with the topic of the list? That's one for themoderation line. James, List Admin _____From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On BehalfOf Dorothy Ingram-Gorban Sent: January 14, 2011 7:02 AM To: org, jfw@freelists. Subject: disability and help I know the law says a lot and the statute books are full,but in practice,well I had reason to telephone the Human rights and resources office in Manchester yesterday, and was lucky to get a very knowledgeableman,who remembered the conciliation arm going into receivership in 2006, I had a clever friend then who o wanted to use jaws to take a very high grade ccisco examination he had no help even then in spite of the latif case which some of you may know, person I spoke to said,the cuts being made will mean "we will not be able even to give a helpline service,the drc helpline will close"our own jobs are on the line, huge cuts mean what? exactly need I say more? I had an email from a professor in Manchester Isaac porat, brilliant man,taking early retirement, yes he uses jaws,next moment on news was news that thousands of local council staff are to be cut in Manchester, , we in Kent are holding our breath for news about ours, in times like this the cuts will most of all hurt the blind poor and disabled and the law ?well it is there if you are rich enough to engage a solicitor yourself,sorry but i amreally sad about many things Dorothy-- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.comJFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxTo unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfwAlternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.htmlIf you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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