one simple question or "you walked four miles to eat what?!!"
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One Simple Question or
“You Walked Four Miles to Eat What?!” Jane Vincent, U-M Assistive Technology Manager
January 17, 2014 #UMSSD40
• “Allow handicapped members of the university community a voice in the determination of their information technology needs.”
• “Assist in the development of the Consortium for Enabling Technology” (“a state-based group concerned with helping the disabled user computers more readily.”)
• “Recommend information technology (hardware and software) that would allow...ready access to the information environment at UM”
• “Recommend information technology-related services to assist handicapped students, faculty, and staff”
Draft White Paper, 10/86
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Price comparison 1987 vs. 2013
1987 2013
Screen reader PC Talking Program (DOS): $500
JAWS: $900 and up NVDA: $0 (open source) VoiceOver: $0 (built into Macs)
Synthesis hardware DECTalk: $1,600 Symphonic and Artic Vision: $695
$0 (Incorporated into software)
Magnification software DP-11 (DOS): $2,695.00 MAGic for Windows: $395 without speech, $595 with speech
• Two speech synthesizers • Two screen readers • Two braille printers • Two magnification programs • Two large print monitors TOTAL: $24,0000
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