Proposal

Narrative

Florida Atlantic University provides campus-wide assistive technology accessibility software in all open labs to ensure accessibility for students with visual disabilities. This software is also provided at the Student Accessibility Services Assistive Technology Resource Center (ATRC) and the SAS testing rooms where students with disabilities can take exams with full accommodations. In addition, other areas of FAU have access to assistive technology software to provide seamless accessibility and legal compliance with mandates such as the Americans with Disabilities Act. This proposal requests the funds for license renewal of Zoomtext software which will be merged with JAWS screen reader software to provide the concurrent Fusion screen reader user license renewal to continue FAU’s high level of computer accessibility for students with disabilities in all campus areas. Although this is not a large student population, it is essential that FAU maintains the current high level of compliance to ensure access to education for students with visual disabilities.

Facilities

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Hardware Requirements

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Software Requirements

The software included in this proposal is a renewal of concurrent licensing for JAWS and Zoomtext. This 30 user concurrent network license will be merged into the new Fusion product which contains both items of assistive technology software. There are no additional software requirements other than those in the proposal.

Personnel Costs

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Other Costs

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Timeline

Software will be implemented by June 2018.

Sustainability

These software licenses will provide an additional two upgrade cycles to the expiration date of current license versions.

Resource Matching

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Implementing Organization

Student Accessibility Services