Hi Melanie,<br><br>There are a couple of caveats with SA. First, an internet connection is necessary to initiate a session. In SAToGo, you must have internet for the entire session. If it goes out, so does SAToGo. For the pay-for version of System Access, this is not the case--once launched it won't time out, even if internet goes south--though you still need internet to launch the program.<br>
<br>Another concern is support for PowerPoint. At this point, you can read PowerPoint presentations but you have no ability at all to edit or create them. I have been told by sources close to Serotek that full PowerPoint operability is in the works and should be functional "soon." But right now, no go. <br>
<br>Probably the best thing to do is have the student "kick the tires." SAToGo is free and works on any Windows machine. The student should give it a try in Blackboard and elsewhere. The keyboard mappings are essentially the same as in JAWS, so there is a shallow learning curve.<br>
<br>Best,<br>ken<br clear="all">-------------------------------------------------------<br> Ken Petri <br> Program Director<br> OSU Web Accessibility Center<br> 102D Pomerene Hall<br> 1760 Neil Avenue<br>
Columbus, Ohio 43210<br> Phone: (614) 292-1760<br> Fax: (614) 292-4190<br> mailto:<a href="mailto:petri.1@osu.edu">petri.1@osu.edu</a><br>-------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Melanie Thornton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mpthornton@ualr.edu">mpthornton@ualr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<font face="Arial">Thank you both, Al and Ron. Good to know. Very
helpful!<br>
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Melanie<br>
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Al Puzzuoli wrote:
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Over all, there are some areas
in which Jaws is still more functional than System access; but having
said that, I believe that System Access has actually surpassed jaws in
terms of web browsing with Internet Explorer.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000ff"><font size="2">If your student will
primarily be working on web based systems, and using Microsoft Word to
write papers, etc, then System Access should be more than sufficient.
If the student has had extensive experience with Jaws in the past, then
I would advise purchasing the Eloquence option for System Access, at a
cost of an additional $25.00. <span>Eloquence
is the synthesizer used by Jaws, and often, transitioning to a new
speech synthesizer can be as difficult, if not more so than
transitioning to an entirely new screen reader.</span></font></font></font></span></div>
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