Lindsay
FWIW you may find our page on Dyslexia Friendly Libraries at
http://www.dyslexic.com/library.htm useful. This looks at a number of
bits of technology, mainly from the dyslexia point of view. We haven't
at the moment attempted to do a "kit".
Regards
Ian Litterick
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> From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support
> staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lindsay Jones
> Sent: 13 August 2002 13:33
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> Subject: Ability Net Accessible IT Kits
>
>
> Apologies if this topic has been covered before. I couldn't
> get into the
> archive search to check.
>
> At London Business School Library, we have been given a budget to buy
> soft and hardware for the library that will make our resources (print
> and electronic resources) more accessible to customers with
> disabilities
> . At the moment we don't have any of this specialist equipment at all,
> so I'm starting from scratch. We have very few known disabled
> users, so
> we can't build up a collection of equipment for a variety of
> disabilities by asking the users what their requirements are - we need
> to be more proactive and equip ourselves to be able to assist
> any future
> library users that we don't yet know about.
>
> Because of this rather vague situation and because of a lack of
> expertise on site, I am very tempted to recommend that we buy an
> Accessible IT Kit from Ability Net (rather than assembling
> various bits
> of kit ourselves). The kit claims to cater for 75% of
> disabilities, and
> includes the following items:
>
> 3 types of keyboard
> Pointing devices - touchpad, mini trackball, large trackball with drag
> lock button, joystick
> Software - screen magnifier, dyslexia software, document reader and
> voice recognition
> Training and support
>
> I was wondering if anybody else has any experience of this particular
> kit, or knows of any other suppliers or kits out there, and
> whether they
> can recommend this route.
>
> Thanks very much, Lindsay
>
>
>
>
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> *************
>
> Lindsay Jones
> RSLP Project Officer/Electronic Resources Specialist
> London Business School Library
> Regent's Park
> London NW1 4SA
>
> Tel: 020 7262 5050 x4241
> Email: [log in to unmask]
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