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?
Waldo Jaquith /
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2024-06-18 14:29:24
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