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...reason why high-tech firms are more open to the disabled--humane considerations aside--is that the price of accommodating them, at least in some areas, is rapidly falling. Henter-Joyce Inc., a St. Petersburg, Fla., software company, manufactures a program for blind and visually impaired people that has come down in price by almost half--from $1,500 to $795--since its 1988 introduction, notes president Ted Henter, who is himself blind. Called JAWS, an acronym for Job Access with Speech, the Windows-based program reads back in a synthesized voice whatever is typed into a computer. This voice...
...Barkers will also challenge that 1997 sale of 280 acres of their farm at auction to local real estate developer Ossie Smith. They contend that local officials denied their eldest son, Phillip R., the right to purchase the farm at its appraised price after the foreclosure--even though he had the financing to do so. They also claim that Smith bulldozed the grave of Dorathy's father on the property--despite a court-ordered stay pending outcome of the class action. Smith refuses to comment on the allegation...
That's good news if you're one of the 18 whose lives were saved--but a high price to pay if you're one of the 619 who underwent radical but ultimately needless surgery...
...libraries set their own prices," he says. "We just provide an easier way to pay for those services, whatever the price...
Students like Campos say the lower price for things like copies is incentive to use Crimson Cash...