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color=#0000ff size=2>It's good to hear that you have things covered at your
institution, Susan. My experience is that many other institutions will
wiggle out of their responsibilities unless someone calls for
accountability. After all, access follows advocacy and does not happen on
its own. People with disabilities have too much life to live to wait on
others to do the right thing. That's why your admonishment to stop
assuming makes little sense to me. I've seen the discriminatory practice
of using low quality technology in place of the good stuff. I've seen
people put budgets ahead of civil rights. I've been burned by bad
technology, and I've seen others with disabilities burned as well. Why is
this experience so threatening to you? Who are you defending? I
really am curious since it's obvious you care deeply about equal access and the
appropriate use of technology. Heck, I even agree with you that most
colleges do right by their assistive technology obligations. However,
beyond any shadow of a doubt, there are many institutions that are not so
enlightened. And things are not helped a bit when businesses capitalize on
prejudices with sly marketing techniques and unreachable promises. The
assumption that all is good seems foolish to me, but the assumption that we can
trust institutions to do what they have shown us they will do not only makes
good sense, it's a necessity.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Jim Marks<BR>Director of Disability Services<BR>University of
Montana<BR>jim.marks@umontana.edu<BR><A
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> athen-bounces@athenpro.org
[mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Kelmer, Susan
M.<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 09, 2008 6:49 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Access
Technologists in Higher Education Network<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Athen] Screen
readers/other software<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">My
only concern with your comments, Jim, is that you make the assumption that we
are providing either/or, i.e., Premier/others. That’s not the case.
We provide it all, as do most other campuses. Everyone knows that you get
what you pay for, and we also all know that sometimes low-tech and low-cost is
effective for a certain process, and not effective for another. Stop
assuming we are replacing things like Zoomtext and WYNN and Read and Write with
Premier, and you’ll stop hearing from me on the subject.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">My
licensing for the Premiere suite is about $1000 per year. That has been
relatively cost-effective for us. Of course, it depends on where/how we
deploy it, as well. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">And
I wouldn’t trade Text-to-Audio for just about anything, at this point. It
is the MOST-used Premier product for me and has been for about five years
now. I could not get my work done without it. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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