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   Waldo Jaquith (waldoj@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 23:36:08 JST Waldo Jaquith

   A blind colleague recently joined a new federal agency. The agency is refusing to let him use the NVDA screen reader (free, open source), because it's created by an Australian non-profit which is not registered on SAM.gov (because they're not a vendor).

   If you know of how a federal employee has gotten approval to use NVDA, would you let me know what magic words were required?

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     BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 23:36:08 JST BeAware

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     @waldoj I don't have any calm, level-headed advice. However, if they wanna go nuclear, they might be able to file a disability discrimination lawsuit over something like this....😳