Hi Tom,

There is a good verification process that fulfills the requirements while
providing the greatest amount of accessibility to the applicant.  That is
the one provided by Benetech for applying for Bookshare service.  I believe
Handiham could employ this process, meet all their requirements and thus
reduce the burden for the blind person as much as humanly possible.  I pay a
reader.  She helps us with our mail once or twice a month.  I don't want to
pay her to deal with this process if it isn't already sufficiently
inaccessible.  Handiham is not a private, mainstream business.  It is an
organization who's mission is to work with people with disabilities.  That
mission ought to start with the process of applying for membership.  It
isn't hard to be accessible in this case.  I don't feel that I am being too
unreasonable.


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Subject: Re: Revisiting accessible amateur radio study materials.


> There are a number of rules which control the application process.
> Personally I
> found the Handi-Ham application to be no big deal.  It took no more effort
> than
> someone filling out a bill I need to send in and since I already had a
> letter
> I'd had one of my physicians write me I just copied it.  If you keep a
> copy of
> such a letter around that will generally work.  So long as Handi-Hams
> receives
> funding through the government folks as a part of a rehab facility there
> will be
> the medical aspect of things.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html