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From: ron
Date: Feb 11, 2014 5:10PM

Once again I am going to speak from the public education space and in particular from the perspective of
California since it currently is the best exemplar. In most instances they no longer have funding to maintain
upgrades nor to buy SMA's for products such as JAWS, if the could even get one in the first place. For
others when categorical funding went away several years ago they lost the ability to maintain access and
are forced to support JAWS going back to version 7 based on the most current version. Legally in many
instances they are also forced to be entirely product agnostic in their work in trying to avoid risk
management issues. Am I supporting this absolutely not, except for product neutrality which actually is
required in most states by statute. Most of my work is in the area of recommending unbiased pragmatic
and cost effective advice at the institution or system level.

I will now let you go back to your regular programming. If any wish to engage in a conversation out of the
public eye please email me privately and I will will love to hear about your experiences or successes.

Ron Stewart

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