Hi,
A VI friend recently contacted a VI group for advice on the
provisioning of equipment for his university course in September.
Apparently, he has been told by his DSA supplier that the equipment he
is going to need will have to be supplied by the company Iansyst LTD.
While their web site is very helpful, the company does look as though
they are very geared for supporting dyslexic students, but maybe not
so much students with a visual impairment. For example, on their
computer specifications page, they specify their systems come with
integrated sound cards using the Live chipset. Now with this chipset,
using Jaws under Windows XP, causes a lot of problems with the speech
stuttering. Furthermore, the company sells voice recognition products
(Dragon Naturally Speaking), but not the interface software to hook
this product into Jaws. While these are only two examples I have come
across after a brief look up of the web site, I am sure there may be
more issues if a VI person had specific requirements.
So what I am interested to find out is if the DSA provider (the LEA?)
can specify specific companies that the equipment must be purchased
from, and what happens if a specific product is not sold by the
recommended companies? I am hoping to reassure him in this matter.
Thanks,
Andrew.
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Andrew Hodgson, Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK.
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