More people to go blind to bring prices down? Well, aint that a nice
thought.
Sorry, but the world does not revolve around the disabled. Can anyone
who is blind grab any mainstream device off the shelf and begin to use it,
witout sighted assistance whatsoever from the get go? Maybe the blind
should band together and demand autonomy and form their own country and
become 100% self sufficient and socially isolated?
By the way I am all for using mainstream prodocts when they will do what
I want them to do. I also will continue to buy adaptive equipment that will
offer me solutions.
So, what is the solution? Do it yourself! Become an entrepreneur! And
stop complaining! This is like complaining about snow in winter and not
getting out there to shovel your own sidewalks. Oh yeah and you could be
unlucky enough to live in countries that do nothing to support the disabled
population.
Quote of the nanosecond...
Some people can tell time by looking at the sun, but I've never been able to
see the numbers.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "darren harris" <[email protected]>
To: "'Kim Lingo'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 9:08 AM
Subject: RE: An AccessWorld Reader Shares his Discontent with the
Reliability of Braille Notetakers - AccessWor ldR - February 2011
This is the sort of thing that I mean. Point proven I'm afraid.
From: Kim Lingo [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 10 February 2011 13:53
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: An AccessWorld Reader Shares his Discontent with the
Reliability of Braille Notetakers - AccessWor ldR - February 2011
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
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