I agree with Alex's opinion of HW's very poor marketing emails so sent them 
basically a copy of his  email which follows.  Maybe HW will, or at least might 
take a hint from all of this.  Hello HW Support, I totally agree with the 
following statement.  I   find it in line
with my opinion of your Teaser Email Campaign to promote new products so that's 
why
I am sending it to you, again.
I just received an email about a new HW product. However, as a blind
person, it told me nothing except that the device is thin (though I am
not sure how thin, or in reference to what - a thin computer tower is
thick compared to a PDA, but not compared to a larger computer tower).
What does the image in the teaser email contain? As with your Apex
teasers, you are sending BLIND customers PICTURES, and not describing
anything!! I thought we (the users) had made it clear in the Apex
campaign that this strategy does NOT work and is quite frustrating to
us, the people to whom you are hoping to sell this mystery device. At
least tell us what the picture contains! Why is this so difficult, to
describe a picture to an audience you know cannot see it? If nothing
else, could we, the users, please have an explanation as to just what
you hope to accomplish by doing this? Our only recourse is to enlist
the help of a sighted person, even though Humanware is supposed to be
all about empowering their customers and making them independent!
 I find this marketing practice is  in very poor taste and not
in the least effective.  Thank you, Jim Gammon
.  Jim
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