<div dir="ltr"><div>That's a disappointing response, to be sure.</div><div>Perhaps if they hear "our institution will not consider a site license for Grammarly's inaccessible software, and we share that information with other institutions" would ramp up their awareness to the point of addressing such a distinct accessibility failure. That's essentially what we do here, and perhaps they would take notice.</div><div><br></div><div>Ok, I'm a dreamer :)</div><div><br></div><div>-*- Dan<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:55 AM Lisa Brandt <<a href="mailto:lisa.brandt1@pcc.edu">lisa.brandt1@pcc.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">We met with Grammarly a couple of months ago for a demo. When we informed them that the product does not meet our requirements for accessibility, the answer was just "thanks for letting me know" and an offer of a discount for students who want to purchase an individual license. No "we're working on it" or "I'll take that back to my team." So I don't think anything has changed.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">Lisa</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:48 AM Lucy GRECO <<a href="mailto:lgreco@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">lgreco@berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">sadly the grammarly people have known about this from the start and i don't think they ever spent any time fixing it. i would love it if it world but hay maybe they think one disability keeps you from having others. <br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Lucia Greco<br>Web Accessibility Evangelist <br>IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration<br>University of California, Berkeley<br>(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco<br><a href="http://webaccess.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">http://webaccess.berkeley.edu</a><br>Follow me on twitter @accessaces<br><br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:39 AM Russell Solowoniuk <<a href="mailto:solowoniukr@macewan.ca" target="_blank">solowoniukr@macewan.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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