> KATV (AR)
 > Thursday, February 26, 2004
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 > JUDGE Orders State to Make AASIS Accessible to Blind Workers
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 > Little Rock (AP) - A judge has ordered the state to make its embattled
computer information system accessible to blind state workers.
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 > Pulaski County Circuit Judge Collins Kilgore gave the state until July
first to make changes. He ruled yesterday from the bench in a lawsuit by two
blind state employees.
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 > The suit filed in 2001 complained that the Arkansas Administrative
Statewide Information System lacked a synthesized speech or Braille program.
Without the special software, blind workers can't access accounting,
budgeting and employee time card systems.
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 > Blind employees Donna Hartzell and Larry Wayland sought only software
upgrades in their lawsuit.
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 > The state, in turn, is suing German software developer SAP, contending the
company did not fulfill its contract to develop the programs.
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