Name:
Student Accessibility Services Assistive Technology Resource Center Equipment Renewal Proposal
FiscalYear:
2015
Audience:
Student Affairs
Submitter:
Buckley, Stuart
Budget Manager:
Cocuzza, Michael
Project Manager:
Buckley, Stuart Guy
Dept. Chair:
King, Corey A
Local IT:
N/A
Dean:
King, Corey A
Facilities:
N/A
OIT:
Bagdonas, Joseph A.
Year 1:
$ 38,241.71
Year 2:
$ 0.00
Year 3:
$ 0.00
Total:
$ 38,241.71
The Florida Atlantic University Student Accessibility Services (SAS) Assistive Technology Resource Center (ATRC) supports diversity at FAU by serving a wide range of students with challenges presented by their individual disabilities. The ATRC employs innovative solutions along with specialized one-on-one student training to facilitate accessibility leading to student independence, retention and ultimately academic success. These acquired skills not only lead to academic accomplishment, but serve to prepare the students for full participation in the workforce with minimal limitation from disability. The SAS has implemented a strategy of using innovative assistive technology along with individualized and specialized training to facilitate this outcome. This proposal requests additional items and replacements in order to maintain this high quality of support to students with disabilities. The items required include a Humanware Brailliant 40 cell Refreshable Braille Display, which is an assistive device that will be used by students who are blind to read Braille in a fast and efficient manner when working on coursework and taking examinations. Two CCTV magnifiers (Davinci Pro and Baum Visiodesk for use by students with visual impairment are required to replace some aging units with outdated technology. These will allow visually impaired students to have full and equal access to printed materials such as hard copy books and exams by the use of magnification and image enhancement. Five additional laptops and five additional iPads are requested to expand the accessible accommodation of C-Print captioning services which are provided to students who are Deaf or hard of hearing. These laptops are used to deliver real-time captioning to students in class. The students view the resulting captions on an Apple iPad. This provides a discrete and unobtrusive display for the student which retains their anonymity and reduces the stigma of disability in the classroom while providing an equal and inclusive learning experience. This also presents a labor cost saving to the University of approximately $87 per hour compared to outside vendor Communication Access Real-Time captioning (CART) services for the Deaf. The ATRC currently utilizes twelve desktop computers that are configured with a range of assistive technology. These are utilized by students on a daily basis as they complete academic work. These desktop computers are currently at the end of their five year life-cycle and we are requesting the replacement of all twelve of these. We are requesting that four of these have larger 27” monitors to accommodate our visually impaired student users.
The items in this technology fee proposal are focused on supporting diversity and taking an innovative technology approach to ensure full accessibility to students with disabilities at Florida Atlantic University. This proposal aims to reinforce FAU as the leader of the highest quality level of accessibility of any academic institution in the State of Florida.
Fiscal Year 1 | Fiscal Year 2 | Fiscal Year 3 | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Hardware One-Time | $ 38,241.71 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 38,241.71 |
Hardware Recurring | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
Software One-time | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
Software Recurring | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
Personnel One-time | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
Personnel Recurring | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
Other One-time | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
Other Recurring | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
Totals | $ 38,241.71 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 38,241.71 |
Filename | Size | Description |
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5 Ipads - 2202672606.pdf | 60,449b | 5 ipads with cases and warranties for use with C-Print for Deaf students. |
FAU OSD Latitude 12 7000 series - C-Print.pdf | 763,982b | Dell Latitude laptop 12 3000. This quote will be for 5 of these units. |
FAU OSD OptiPlex 7040 with 24 inch 1080p monitor.pdf | 795,268b | Dell 7040 desktop with 24" monitor for Assistive Technology Resource Center. This quote will be for 8 of these units. |
FAU OSD OptiPlex 7040 with 27 inch 1080p monitor.pdf | 849,407b | Dell 7040 desktop with 27" monitor for Assistive Technology Resource Center. This quote will be for 8 of these units. |
FAU VisioDesk_V1(1).pdf | 89,441b | Visio Desk CCTV Magnifier for students with visual impairments. |
Q0025396-FAUBrailliantBI40.pdf | 172,929b | Humanware Brailliant BI40 refreshable Braille display with Perkins keypad for visually impaired students. |
Quote FAU DaVinci Pro.docx | 11,357b | DaVinci Pro CCTV Magnifier for students with visual impairments. |