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Fantastic Disability Services

  • 10% of Web surfers have a disability

  • American with Disabilities Act may apply to Web sites

  • We can caption Real Audio material

  • We design Websites for the blind


Approximately 10 percent of the people surfing the Internet has some sort of disability.

That disability could be anything from being hard of hearing to being completely deaf, from having "old eyes" that makes reading small print difficult, to having low-vision or blindness.

The US government is considering a variety of ways of using the Americans with Disabilities Act to apply to Web sites and other forms of electronic media. Companies like Microsoft and America Online has had protests and even the threat of lawsuits brought against them to make their software more handicap friendly.

At Fantastic Transcripts, we are pioneering ways of bringing the Internet to the disabled, and you can take advantage of our services.

For example, one of our specialties is captioning audio for deaf.

Imagine for a moment that you cannot hear.

All of that rich material on the Web, such as radio broadcasts, quarterly investor calls, speeches, old time radio shows, and other audio productions are completely inaccessible.

However, through Real Audio captioning, that material can be accessed and enjoyed.

For an example, try our demonstration of an interview with author Robert J. Sawyer.

The Web is a rich visual experience for most people, but for the blind or people with low vision, it can be a confusing place - but it doesn't need to be.

Fantastic Transcripts can reorganize your Web site to make it more friendly to the blind, or we can design a completely separate area just for people with disabilities.

The blind are using the Internet for many of the same things you are using the Internet for. But pages with hundreds of links, pictures with no textual description of what they are, and it can make surfing the Web a very frustrating experience.

Fantastic Transcripts will re-engineer a Wesbite or repurpose content you may have to make it understandable to the blind.

Most blind computer users use a program, such as JAWS, which uses a computerized voice to read each word on a Web page aloud.

We also use a program called Bobby to scan each of the pages we create for accessibility.

For an example of an interactive multimedia CD-ROM we repurposed into an educational Website, view our demonstration. Feel free to "read" it through JAWS. The large font size and the simplified design is for people with "old eyes" and low vision.

Our rates are extremely reasonable. We can transcribe, proofread and caption audio for as little as $200 per hour of audio and redesign Websites for as little as $26 per page.

Call us with your requirements for an estimate.


Call Susan Gellerman at:
Fantastic Transcripts
59 Temple Place, Suite 660, Boston, MA 02111
(617) 451-1807
Or e-mail her at susan@fantastictranscripts.com

And tell her you heard about Fantastic Transcripts on the World Wide Web.


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Updated 01/10/01
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