Thank you for your reply - and I I'm sorry you were offended by my frustration with Apple Support. I made numerous attempts to post a msg (or thread - y'all seem to use these interchangeably) - now I just have to figure out out what I did different this time so that it worked.
I didn't/don't confuse you with Apple Support, as I made clear - that was the intent of relating why Apple Support is unavailable to me. What spurred me to conduct a survey of other sources of Mac help were available to folks who Apple had abandoned by virtue of their disabilities.I have a colleague you is conducting a parallel survey for PC users. I am a full-time patient advocate, hence I am keenly interested in hearing from others who have been left "out in the cold" by the customer support policies of large corporations. If you have "decreed that "this is not the place to document them", I can be contacted at (e-mail address removed).
We are all volunteers too; our computers are important tools for the important work we do - most of us are on disability and do not have access to institutional IT support, hence this survey of community-based sources of support
cheers
marti