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Date sent: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:35:52 +0100
From: Judy Adams <[log in to unmask]>
To help universities and colleges conform with legislation regarding
accessibility, CHEST is opening negotiations with a number of
suppliers to offer best-value licences for enabling software.
We hope to contact a representative number of sites to research
requirements but, to speed things up, please take a minute to
provide us with the following feedback
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
1. Which enabling software products are you already using?
2. How many copies will you buy?
3. Do you plan to install these on stand-alone machines or on a
network?
4. If stand-alone, on how many machine would you ideally like to have
this software?
5. What kind of support do you receive for the software you currently
have installed?
Do you need to purchase new versions?
6. Does your licence offer/would you like to offer, home use rights?
7. How do you identify the products you need?
8. How are your purchases currently funded?
9. What is your current annual spend on enabling technology (including
hardware, e.g. scanners, CCTV, etc)?
10. Will the new legislation impose additional expenditure? If so, for
what? What is your budget for the next 12 months?
11. How will you fund this?
12. Have you identified the products you expect to purchase? What are
they? When will you purchase them?
13. What would you ideally like the institution to offer in terms of
enabling software - What is your ideal range and mix? How much do
funding and budgetary requirements affect your decisions?
14. What information or service could CHEST provide to help you plan,
make decisions and purchases?
CHEST hopes to have offers available for the academic year starting
September 2002. Information about all new offers will be posted on
<http://www.chest.ac.uk> directly they become available.
Please help us by ‘making a wish’ for your preferred products by adding
your institution to our wishlist at
<http://www.chest.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wishes>.
The following products are already listed on the wishlist.
Bobby - web accessibility
<http://bobby.cast.org/html/en/index.jsp>
2 wishes to date
Home Page Reader - for people with visual impairment
<http://www-3.ibm.com/able/hpr.html>
New wish
Inspiration - mind mapping software
<http://www.inspiration.com/home.cfm>
2 wishes to date
Jaws - for people with visual impairment
<http://www.sightandsound.co.uk/>
8 wishes to date
Kurzweil 1000 - for people with visual impairment
<http://www.kurzweiledu.com/>
New wish
Kurzweil 3000- for people with reading/learning difficulties
<http://www.kurzweiledu.com/>
New wish
LIFT - web accessibility
<http://www.usuablenet.com>
New wish
LUNAR - for people with visual impairment
<http://www.dolphinuk.co.uk/products/lunar.htm>
2 wishes to date
MagiC - for people with visual impairment
http://www.freedomscientific.com/index.html
New wish
OutSpoken - for people with visual impairment
<http://www.aagi.com/catalogue/ProductCat.asp>
New wish
Supernova - for people with visual impairment
http://www.dolphinuk.co.uk/products/supernova.htm
New wish
textHELP Read & Write - Dyslexia special needs software
<http://www.texthelp.com>
1 wish
Window-Eyes - for people with visual impairment
<http://www.gwmicro.com/>
New wish
Zoomtext - for people with visual impairment
<http://www.aisquared.com/>
1 wish
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Judy Adams
Senior Contracts Officer
Tel: 01225 474331
Fax: 01225 474301
Web: http://www.chest.ac.uk
CHEST
Queen Anne House
11 Charlotte Street
Bath BA2 1NE
CHEST is a service of EduServ
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Paul Dilley, Technical Manager & dis-forum list owner
Computer Centre for People with Disabilities, University of Westminster
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