[Athen] Fusion- ZoomText and JAWS together

[Leyna Bencomo]

Yes, thank you.  Insightful comments as usual from this group.

Leyna Bencomo
Assistive Technology Specialist
Office of Information Technology
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway, EPC 215
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
(719) 255-4202 / lbencomo at uccs.edu<mailto:lbencomo at uccs.edu>
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From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Place, Vicki
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 9:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [Athen] Fusion- ZoomText and JAWS together

Thank you, Peter and Joseph for your input.  It has been very helpful.


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Vicki Place

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Assistive Technology Center
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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Bossley, Peter A.
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 8:23 AM
To: jpolizzotto at htctu.net<mailto:jpolizzotto at htctu.net>; Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] Fusion- ZoomText and JAWS together

Also worth noting that you don't have to run fusion, each product is also installed and can be run as each part's stand alone version. E.G. if a student just needs JAWS, you can disable fusion auto-start and just set JAWS to load.
We have a network server that we use to serve licenses to the entire campus. It works very well for all of our campus computers, for example in the computer labs.

From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu>> On Behalf Of Joseph Polizzotto
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 1:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [Athen] Fusion- ZoomText and JAWS together

Here are a few reasons why I recommend upgrading:


*         Single installation

*         Single activation code

*         Ease of transition from magnifier use to screen reading use

*         ZoomText users can access JAWS speech features for all screen reading, which means an enhanced method of navigation

*         ZoomText users can use a JAWS voice profile with synthesizers in multiple languages to read multi-lingual documents

One negative of upgrading to fusion might be the following:


*         Less creativity in implementation across campuses (1 ZoomText license + 1 JAWS license = 1 Fusion license). Whereas before your JAWS license and ZoomText license may have been activated on separate computers, the upgrade will force you to have JAWS + ZoomText + Fusion on the same computer.

HTH,


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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Leyna Bencomo
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Subject: Re: [Athen] Fusion- ZoomText and JAWS together

We are up for renewal with Jaws and Zoomtext.  Please share any insights.

Leyna Bencomo
Assistive Technology Specialist
Office of Information Technology
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway, EPC 215
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
(719) 255-4202 / lbencomo at uccs.edu<mailto:lbencomo at uccs.edu>
http://www.uccs.edu/~it/
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From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu>> On Behalf Of Place, Vicki
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 10:29 AM
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Subject: [Athen] Fusion- ZoomText and JAWS together

So, we are up for renewal of our JAWS software.  We have tried Fusion in the 40 minute mode.

We would really appreciate any feedback on the dual software, any troubles or concerns?

Thanks much!!

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Vicki Place

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Assistive Technology Center
Program Support Supervisor II

Phone: (509) 542-4428
On-Campus Ext.: 2428
Location:  T422
Mail Stop: MS-T6

Hours:
7:00 am - 4:30 pm; Mon-Thurs
7:00 am- Noon; Friday

California State University, Northridge
Assistive Technology Applications Certificate Program (ATACP)
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