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
>