[accessibleimage] FW: an important survery

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Karyl Loux [mailto:karyl@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:12 PM
To: karylloux
Subject: an important survery

Hello there (this is going to a group by blind copy);
    I am pasting a message below from a product developer that has
developed 
one of the coolest tools for tutoring students in primarily chemistry,
but 
it does also have some math components.  I would like to suggest that
you go 
to the web site identified after his signature and check this thing out.
It 
is amazing, and I saw him present on it at a math conference in
Maryland. 
The idea behind it is to have a tutor that will always be there to help
the 
student, even when a parent isn't home (or isn't clever enough) to do
so. 
Anyway, he has put a lot of effort into making this tutor fully
accessible 
to the blind, and for that I would like to make sure that the blindness 
community supports him by giving him the feedback he needs.  He will use
our 
feedback to continue to improve his product for our population.
Further, it 
will make it more likely that he will be able to solicit funding sources
to 
support his efforts to continue with the development.  I certainly put
into 
my survey that we need more maths, and asked him about it.  He told me
that 
it will be in his plans for the future if the project can remain viable.
    I would like to ask that you please check out the product and
respond to 
his survey.  It won't take you much time and I think you will find it as

exciting and interesting as I do.  Also, if you could forward my request
to 
any TVIs you may know I would appreciate it.  The more responses he gets
the 
more likely this and all of his future developments will be available
for 
our visually impaired students too.

Karyl Loux

-------Original Message----------------------
Hi Karyl,

Thanks for contacting me, and I certainly appreciate you telling people 
about our product.  We are progressing very well with making the
chemistry
tutor module I showed at the GAMA summit accessible with JAWS - our 
prototype is already highly usable....

Am I correct that you have a TVI background?  If so, would you mind 
completing a survey we're issuing as part of our NIH-funded project on
accessibility?  The survey is at 
http://www.quantumsimulations.com/accessibility_survey.html.  If you
have 
the time to provide this information, I'd certainly appreciate it.

We certainly intend to develop accessible AI tutors for more math topics
as 
time goes on; it's just a matter of raising the funding to support the
research, which I feel confident we can do.

Benny G. Johnson, Ph.D.
President
Quantum Simulations, Inc.
5275 Sardis Road
Murrysville, PA  15668
Phone:  (724) 733-8603
Fax:      (724) 325-2062
Visit http://www.quantumsimulations.com/demo.html
for a virtual demonstration of Quantum's AI tutoring software.

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