UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

After all my elation that my employer (effectively the civil service although I am a serving serviceman) had consented to upgrade my workstation to take account of my visual impairment. Now, I am all deflated again. I am aiming at creating a workstation that I can use WITHOUT lenses so I can save my lenses for when I am outside doing my job or driving and so on. I requested these changes (bigger screen, lighting, text enlargement or text-to-speech software) backed up by an assessment from Occy Health way back in August 06. So far nothing... But I got excited a few weeks ago when I was told the changes were going to be made. Since then we fallen back to the default mode of civil service operation and I have heard or seen nothing. Deeply frustrating!
Anyhow, I intend to take a leaf from Gareth's book and make a presentation to my fellow crown servants in the hope that it might galvanise some effort towards my goal. If this does not work I may have to go where I never wanted to go and start using the DDA.
If I was to make some kind of presentation I would like to think it had the blessing of the Committee, ie they had a look at it and checked for accuracy etc. I could e-mail the power point slides. I have based them on the employer fact sheet and intend to distribute these also. Can a member of the committee help me out on this? I would be most grateful.

Hi Matthew - sorry to hear that your employer is being so slooooow (though as an ex civil servant, I'm not surprised!) Pleased to help in any way we can (though as Gareth is the one who has actually done this himself for his employers, he might be the best one to help. I'm sure he'll speak for himself!)
Anne

Matthew,

PM me your email and I will send you the presentation I did and you can adapt it to your specific needs.

I will put the official KC logo on and stick at the bottom copyright of the KC group to lend it more credibility.

Regards

Gary Beynon

Matthew/Gareth

Gareth - as you know you sent me the presentation - I've made some changes and personalised it for me. It should not have compromised any accuracy, after all we are all different! But if you can e-mail me the logo I'll stick it on the bottom of my slides too.

Matthew
I too work for the civil service and am at the start of the process in trying to get the equipment I need. Be interesting comparing notes in due course!

Gareth,
Thanks. I have PM'd you. Thanks for your help.

Pat,
Yes, I suspect it will be the same story of institutionalised paralysis!

Pat, Matthew

Have just e-mailed the presentation to you both.

Anne Klepatz now has a copy; it still has things of direct relevence to me so you can get an idea of where I felt specific things needed mentioning.

It could do with refrence to disability discrimination act and legal obligations of employer and employee but I feel such slides would need to be run past a specialist in employment law to ensure the content is correct.

Regards

Gareth

Gareth,
The presentation is excellent. Thanks.