New on-line accessibility solutions store

[Martin Tibor]

Hi Debbie,

Our catalog is available as a text file do you want this file? I include the
link to the text file catalog in my postings to blind users groups. The text
file catalog is being updated at the moment since our catalog in a state of
perpetual revision.

Our web site should be very accessible to any user although there may be an
odd alt-tag missing here or there. We have avoided technologies that would
be graphical in nature such as Flash and Java.

We find Acrobat to be an efficient way to offer catalog to a broad base of
users due to its file size and portability. Several thousand catalogs are
downloaded every month which saves mailing and handling costs. The catalog
was originally produced in Adobe InDesign and then exported to an Acrobat
pdf file so it retains the text attributes rather than presenting merely an
graphical image. As soon as we can get our hands on Acrobat 5 we will port
the catalog to it. It is my understanding that current versions of
Window-Eyes and Jaws for Windows are directly supporting Acrobat 5.

If you know of a better publishing alternative to Acrobat please let know.

Marty Tibor
Synapse Adaptive
Speech Recognition & Assistive Technologies
3095 Kerner Blvd., Suite S,
San Rafael, CA  94901
toll-free 888-285-9988
http://www.synapse-ada.com
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learn more about Synapse
http://www.synapseadaptive.com/synapsepr.html
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64 page Adobe Acrobat format catalog
http://www.synapseadaptive.com/pdf/Synapse40p.pdf (requires Adobe Acrobat
Reader ver. 4)
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UNIX, mainframe and Mac speech recognition
http://www.unixspeech.com
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking Unofficial Information Pages
http://www.synapseadaptive.com/joel/default.htm

-----Original Message-----
From: WASH-AT-owner at u.washington.edu
[mailto:WASH-AT-owner at u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Debbie Cook
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 6:16 AM
To: Statewide forum on assistive-technology issues
Subject: RE: New on-line accessibility solutions store


Your credibility for this task would be much higher if you offered your
downloadable catalog in something other than PDF
which in and of itself has only limited accessibility and at best is tedious
for many AT users.

Debbie
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:32:16 -0700, Martin Tibor wrote:

 We have been attempting the same at http://www.synapse-ada.com

 It is a big job. We are years, thousands of pages and 400 megabytes of data
 into the task.

 This is our 64 page downloadable catalog:
 http://www.synapseadaptive.com/pdf/Synapse40p.pdf

 We are direct solution providers rather than box movers.

 Marty Tibor
 Synapse Adaptive
 Speech Recognition & Assistive Technologies
 3095 Kerner Blvd., Suite S,
 San Rafael, CA  94901
 toll-free 888-285-9988
 http://www.synapse-ada.com
 -------
 learn more about Synapse
 http://www.synapseadaptive.com/synapsepr.html
 -------
 64 page Adobe Acrobat format catalog
 http://www.synapseadaptive.com/pdf/Synapse40p.pdf (requires Adobe Acrobat
 Reader ver. 4)
 -------
 UNIX, mainframe and Mac speech recognition
 http://www.unixspeech.com
 -------
 Dragon NaturallySpeaking Unofficial Information Pages
 http://www.synapseadaptive.com/joel/default.htm

 -----Original Message-----
 From: WASH-AT-owner at u.washington.edu
 [mailto:WASH-AT-owner at u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Carole Isakson
 Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 6:01 PM
 To: Statewide forum on assistive-technology issues
 Subject: Re: New on-line accessibility solutions store


 I had a similar impression of the site. It didn't seem like the individuals
 who put the site together were at all familiar with the products listed.
 Carole

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Dan Comden" <danc at cac.washington.edu>
 To: "Statewide forum on assistive-technology issues"
 <wash-at at u.washington.edu>
 Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 4:59 PM
 Subject: Re: New on-line accessibility solutions store


 >
 > I'm curious if anyone has taken a close look at the EnableMart site. On a
 > quick eval, it seems like they have a very short list of products and
 > interesting interpretations of categorization for the products they do
 > carry, such as ScreenDoors for visual impairments and touchfree switch
for
 > hearing impairments. A search for speech output utilities yielded odd
 > product results, such as ViaVoice and language skills software.
 >
 > That said, it's nice to see someone attempting the "one stop shopping"
 > idea for AT. It looks as if these folks have their work cut out for them,
 > though.
 >
 > -*- Dan Comden                   danc at cac.washington.edu
 >     Adaptive Technology Lab      http://www.washington.edu/computing/atl/
 >     University of Washington     http://www.washington.edu/doit/
 >
 >
 > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Ginette Perkins wrote:
 >
 > > [For Immediate Release]
 > > April 2, 2001
 > > Enablemart.com
 > > http:www.enablemart.com
 > >
 > > An accessibility solutions store featuring the latest and
 > > greatest computer hardware, software, development tools &
 > > aids designed to fit specific needs, interests & goals.
 > > Computer accessibility products for mobility, learning,
 > > hearing, communications & vision.
 >
 >
 >