thank you for the idea to appeal to government. I am in agreement, as I
am a computer novice and, for example, do not how or what to buy to use
windows 95.
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Bill Gross wrote:
> I agree with the idea to appeal to government about adaptive equipment,
> especially computers, as SI am a computer novice.
>
> On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Ren
> Wang wrote:
>
> > It's interesting. This joke reminds me a question.
> >
> > Last year, we bought a new car. Before we had made choice, my wife went
> > through the Customer's Evaluation published annually about the
> > performance, good and bad points of every car in the market. Considering
> > our needs and environmental situation, we finally sected Saturn because of
> > its plastic body. We did this very carefully because $15000 was not a
> > small amount.
> >
> > Today there are numerous kinds of adaptive equipments
> > available to handicapped people in the market; and most of their prices
> > are higher than a PC computer. For a handicapped beginner who wants to buy
> > a system for getting a new job in the future, the burden of its cost is
> > the same as we purchasing a car. But can this person find out which one is
> > the best choice.
> >
> > I have read many magazines, newsletters and web pages focusing on
> > introducing different adaptive equipments and some users' experiences. But
> > most of them are more or less commercialized and the advantages are often
> > emphasized. many of those documents sound like a car advertisement. Even
> > the articles issued by ACB or AFB still lack of indexation. So for a
> > computer beginner, it's very hard to make comparison of those equipments.
> >
> > I am wondering if we should appeal to the federal government for a project
> > of equipment analysis and produce an annual report on all the adaptive
> > equipments in the market, so that those who do not have a degree in
> > computer science or equivalent experience can still make their choice by
> > by themselves. We can chose a car from Toyota, Fort, Nisan, Benz, Saturn
> > etc without actually learn the details.
> >
> > Ren
> >
>
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