Jeff, Terry and all,
The following is the information that we received from the lift text
transcoder representative. The demonstration was pretty impressive. It
reformatted pages very nicely, but, I believe that it's about a month set up
and the company goes in and reformats only the pages on the server that you
pay for. You can look at other pages in text-only format with this
software, but, it will not be reformatted. Interesting...
Penny
-----Original Message-----
From: Marie Cooper [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:43 PM
To: 'Matt Moore'; 'Karl Carter'; 'Penny Gray'
Subject: FW: Follow-up information on LIFT Text Transcoder
Folks,
Following is the message I received from the LIFE Text Transcoder rep, after
the demo today. Something to look at when we can and feel free to share
with others. I'm interested in your feedback and suggestions. The message
follows....
Marie Stevens Cooper, M.S., CRC
Disability Services Director
Bucks County Community College
275 Swamp Rd.
Newtown, PA 18940
215-968-8463
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Taylor [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 2:12 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Follow-up information on LIFT Text Transcoder
Hello Marie
It was very good talking to you and your team just now. As promised below
find details on the product, pricing and some direct user feedback. I have
separated it up to make it easier to share.
The sites we used were
http://demott.usablenet.com and http://www.uiuc.edu and
http://www.clarion.edu
In addition an interview with key people at the University of Georgia:
http://www.uga.edu/columns/050221/q&a.html
Second a more technical review by VCU:
http://juno.vcu.edu/atnews/archives/000100.html
and third the edu portal that we have developed can be found at:
http://eduportal.usablenet.com
I look forward to working with you and I will have Nick Taylor follow-up.
Regards Jason
1. Product Information and links:
2. References and customer feedback on LIFT solution
1. Product Information and links:
Demo site and manuals: http://demott.usablenet.com - test out what a site
will look like.
Core product information on LIFT Text Transcoder:
http://www.usablenet.com/products_services/text_transcoder/text_transcoder.h
tml
Customization examples:
http://www.usablenet.com/products_services/text_transcoder/annotations/index
.html
Pricing: There are two options for LTT for Web/Content Servers: An Annual
Managed Service (Hosted by UsableNet) and a Purchase for Local Install (at
the customer's site) option. The license is based on Physical web servers
(i.e. irrespective of quantity of domains on the server).
The Initial costs are the same, as they include all the optimization work to
ensure accessibility and ease of access to content. This optimization is
standard - because of its importance to true accessibility - and UsableNet
provides at no added cost and with no additional resources required by the
client.
First year fees: $5600 for the first physical web server (all content, even
virtual domains) and $2800 for each additional physical server. There is
also an unlimited server option of $29,000 - to cover every web server and
all content at the University.
On-Going Options: All first-year costs are included in the initial fee.
Then, in each subsequent year, the cost is 50% of purchase price for the
Managed Services and 20% of the purchase price for an ongoing support
contract for the Local Install version.
Note: Purchase-for-Local Install needs to run on a Solaris, Linux or Mac X
server.
All this pricing includes the customization work of optimizing the text only
sites using annotations. Application server are additional pricing such as
WebCT.
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2. References and customer feedback on solution:
Information pages created by Universities and colleges on their use of LIFT
Text Transcoder.
Penn State University
http://www.equity.psu.edu/access_psu/text.asp
College Information Pages (users of LIFT Text Transcoder) North Carolina
State University
http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/software/usablenet/lift_text_transcoder.ht
ml
Alamo Community Colleges:
http://www.accd.edu/spc/iic/lift-text.htm
Sample list of approved Educational Sites that have started to
implement:
Virginia University: http://www.virginia.edu Penn State University -
http://www.psu.edu/student aid Montana State University http://www.msugf.edu
University of Colorado : http://www.cudenver.edu
Quotes from Universities on their experiences with the solution:
Organization: Penn State University
"I absolutely love these latest enhancements. I had the opportunity to do
more extensive testing with Jaws, and the recognition of the headers will
enable visually impaired users to navigate the text-only site even more
easily. Not to mention all the other annotation-based enhancements.
Excellent job and my compliments to your crew behind the scenes."
Kerstin Roan, Director of Communications/Student Services - Penn State
University
Organization: California State University, Long Beach
"Work right now with the Transcoder is very promising, and has helped us
explain to non-tech administrators why the current structure is
nonfunctional. I don't feel that the hybrid we're launching next month will
entirely bring things up as far as we'd like them, but the Transcoder-parsed
version looks a lot better. Next year's version should be darned near
perfect. The Transcoder is an amazing tool." Doug
Doug Cox
University Webmaster
Director, New Media Communications
Office of Public Relations | BH-275
California State University, Long Beach
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