From: Scott LaBarre 
Subject: Re: woman fired for *not using talking cmputer.
It is hard to know what the NFB would think of such a situation because we
simply do not have all the facts.  The case summaries that fly across the
Bureau for National Affairs and others are glib and often not helpful.  
We stand for the principle that a blind person should have the same
opportunity to succeed on the job as anyone else.  If that basic
opportunity was denied in the case reported, then we may have sided with
the woman, but if she was given an equal opportu8nity and simply refused
to learn a new system just as her sighted peers were called upon to do,
the  law should have afforded her no protection.  
Because we really don't know the facts of that case, it is impossible to
tell how we as individuals or as an organization should have felt about
the case.  I intend to read the decision to determine whether the law set
forth in that case, in terms of its doctrine, is either helpful or harmful
to us as it may apply to other cases in the future.
Cordially,
Scott LaBarre, President
National Association of Blind Lawyers
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