Re: An AccessWorld Reader Shares his Discontent with the Reliability of Braille Notetakers - AccessWor ld® - February 2011

[Kim Lingo]

I haven't read that yet, but the first thing that comes to my mind is that there are a lot more sighted people to spread out the cost of R.&D, marketing, packaging (for CD's), and even things like payroll.  Would I complain if the cost of adaptive products came down?  Of course not.  But there ae probably legitimate reasons why the cost needs to be so high.  One solution would be for more people to go blind; but I doubt that's going to happen.
Kim Lingo
At 10:49 AM 2/10/2011, you wrote:

My apologies if this has already made the list, its an interesting read and its something that GW Micro, Freedom Science Fiction,  Human Ware and other manufacturers of note taking devices for the blind should be pressured into taking seriously, that is the reliability and functionality of their expensive line of product compared to that which the sighted world seems to have access to at a far cheaper price, read at
http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw120205