Thread Subject: Re: todays question

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From: Lybarger, Barbara (MOD)
Date: Fri, Jan 12 2007 8:30 AM

The bottom line is that alternative formats must be available. Depending on the actual set of parties involved it varies which one is in the best position to produce the a particular format. What about leaving it open as a point of negotiation, with the agency ultimately responsible that the alternative formats be produced as needed and the vendor obliged to at minium provide digital copy that can be used to do the formating?

Barbara Lybarger

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I think that providing alternative formats is an accommodation
responsibility of the gency. And, I think there re types of requests for
alternte formats which may go beyond htose we traditionally think of
particularly when it ocmes to cognitive accommodation. But, having said all
that, I do believe the manufacturer has the obligation to create
environments where alternative formats can be readily produced. So I think a
requirement more that that for text books where the manufacturer has to
provide digital formats is more appropriate and probably more likely to go
through than expecting every manufacturer to produce the variants of
alternative format that might be requested.
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I agree that the standard should explicitly state that the manufacturer pays
for the alternate format.
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From: Dawn Wilcox
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I interpret 1194.41 (a) to mean the manufacturer provides it and pays for
it. but we could make it more obvious by adding - the manufacturer pays for
and the agency requests alternate formats. Dawn Wilcox CCLVI



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