Part of my job description is asking difficult questions Richard.  Keep us
posted on your inquiries, and never assume anything.  I'm sure that the
basic computer OS and standard applications can be made reasonably
accessible, but I wonder how many of the educational applications
are.  Some sound awfully visual to me.  There is one high school
application called Visual Algebra.  Is that how Arizona will teach high
school algebra in the future?

John
At 12:45 PM 9/5/01 -0700, you wrote:

>John, you do ask the strangest questions.  I didn't know anything about it
>and I have set out notification to several local groups and have heard
>nothing.  I guess we are to assume that the Microsoft server-side
>applications will all be automatically accessible.
>
>Richard Jones
>Assistant Director
>Disability Resources for Students
>Arizona State University, Main
>480-965-1234
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>From:   John Gardner
>[<mailto:[log in to unmask]>mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:   Tuesday, September 04, 2001 5:53 PM
>To:     [log in to unmask]
>Subject:        Arizona computer access contract
>
>An interesting article in Computer World about a huge contract between the
>state of Arizona and Microsoft that provides full access to computers and a
>number of educational and software applications to every K-12 student in
>Arizona:
><http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO63338,00.html>http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO63338,00.html
>
>
>I wonder if any Arizona EASI members know how Arizona proposes to assure
>that "every student" includes those with print disabilities.  If
>accessibility by students with disabilities was mentioned in the article, I
>missed it.
>
>John
>John Gardner
>Professor and Director, Science Access Project
>Department of Physics
>Oregon State University
>Corvallis, OR 97331-6507
>tel: (541) 737 3278
>FAX: (541) 737 1683
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>URL: <http://dots.physics.orst.edu>http://dots.physics.orst.edu

John Gardner
Professor and Director, Science Access Project
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-6507
tel: (541) 737 3278
FAX: (541) 737 1683
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://dots.physics.orst.edu