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RE: LIFT Text Transcoder

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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Jul 26, 2006 5:50AM

> Jason Taylor

> I hope you agree that having this ability to quickly improve a sites
> access without having to find and schedule the changes on the original
> site is powerful. Although we would agree and continue to
> encourage our
> customers in better original design (we even sell tools to help with
> this), many times the resources are not allocated quickly enough and
> assistive users get left out. With this solution we can act
> as a partner
> to the organization and help quickly to improve vast amounts
> of content.

However, particularly in certain management circles, LIFT won't be seen as
a transitional solution (until the original is made more accessible), but
as a permanent one (why do we now need to make the original more accessible?
we've just spent money on that text only version, that covers us doesn't it?)

Patrick
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Patrick H. Lauke
Web Editor / University of Salford
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