>Dear colleagues:

You will all hopefully be hearing (or have heard) from your IT people about
the following. Emma Price & I will obviously be responding to those
concerned within KCL, as you will for your HEI.In case you have not yet
heard about this, however, here's a chance to see and discuss these
requests and whether we should make any suggestions- as an interested
group- as well.


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>Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 15:32:10 +0100
>From: Chestmes <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: THE CHEST SOFTWARE MESSENGER 09JUL2002
>Sender: Chestmes <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Reply-To: Chestmes <[log in to unmask]>
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> THE CHEST SOFTWARE MESSENGER
>
> 09 July 2002 URL: http://www.chest.ac.uk
>
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>
>
>CONTENTS:
>
>
>1. NEWS FROM CHEST
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>a) Invoices dated July 2002
>b) CHEST Agreement with QSR for Nud*ist and Nvivo
>
>
>2. PROSPECTIVE AGREEMENTS
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>a) Assistive Technology
>
>
>3. LATEST SOFTWARE WISHES
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>
>
>4. EVENTS
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>a) Civica - Microsoft Campus 3.1 Seminars
>b) GIS in the Arts and Humanities: A free one-day workshop
>
>
><snip>
>
>
>2. PROSPECTIVE AGREEMENTS
>
>
>a) Assistive Technology - Information Sought
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>To help sites 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 <LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK>making a wish<RIGHT SINGLE
>QUOTATION MARK> 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 imapairment
><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
>
>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
>
>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
>
>
><snip>
>
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> END OF CHEST SOFTWARE MESSENGER DATED 09 July 2002
>
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>Hushang Balyuzi, Assistant Director Information Services & Systems
>Computing & IT Services Department, King's College London
>Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, England
>Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2904 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2233
>E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
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Regards,


Celia L. Cockburn

Disability Co-ordinator, Equal Opportunities Office, King's College London,
7.36 James Clerk Maxwell Building, 57 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WA Tel:
020 7848 3799 Fax: 020 7848 3490. This message may have been typed, but
on a typically bad RSI /WMSDs (Work related Musculoskeletal Disorders) day
it will have been produced using voice recognition software; please ignore
any dictation errors I failed to recognise and correct.

For appointments, please contact Sarah Junor ([log in to unmask]); 020 7848 3398.