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From: Jim Tobias
Date: Wed, Nov 15 2006 12:20 PM
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> From: Sean Hayes [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:57 PM
> To: TEITAC self contained/closed products subcommittee
> Subject: Re: [teitac-closed] Basic questions
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> I mean they are standalone in that a user can walk up to the
> device and send a fax or copy a document using the plastic
> shell o the device. They are used in my office in this manner
> pretty much every day. Just because they are able to be
> controlled from a remote computer doesn't mean they will be
> set up so. It seems a bit arbitrary to me for a device to
> succeed or fail based on whether the user plugs a network
> cable into it.
It's not the manufacturer's product that fails or succeeds. It's how the
agency uses it. The manufacturer is only supposed to provide an
offering that allows the agency to use a PC interface.
Nothing in the straw man says anything about how
non-disabled people can use the device -- we're not forcing anyone to
use a PC to control the copier when they could easily do it by buttons.
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