Dean,
At Southampton University we have two workstations in the main library
dedicated to specific use with specialist hard and software to meet the
special needs. One workstation is the workstation which is for the visually
impaired and has the equipment which you specify. The other workstation is
for dyslexic students with scanning facilities, high specification PC fitted
with Kurzweil software. These workstations ensure that identified students
are able to use facilities which they need and that these facilities are
available for dedicated use - other workstations, like all universities,
are heavily used and queues often occur. Thus, it is hoped that the students
for whom the facilities are essential get a fair crack at the whip!
Geraldine Price
At 11:05 AM 29/1/97 +0000, you wrote:
>We have a number of PCs at our University with various
>enabling technologies associated with them. In
>particular we have one in our main library which is
>connected to an Index braille embosser, HAL voice
>synthesiser and Xerox scanner.
>
>I'd be interested to know whether other member of the
>forum have similar set-ups at Universities or libraries
>and what recommendations others would have as to a core
>suite of software to place on our "access" PCs.
>
>A few details on this can be found on the projects's web
>pages at the URL below. Any comments on the web-site
>would, also, be more than welcome.
>
>Thanks,
>Dean Furber
>FACE Project Officer
>University of the West of England
>http://www.uwe.ac.uk/library/itdev/face/
>
>
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