New Linux PDA For Blind People

[hank smith]

no your rant is good wish more people thaught this as well and stood up and 
took a stand.
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From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <lorenzo at taylor.homelinux.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: New Linux PDA For Blind People


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> Let's just hope it is competitive with the rest of today's PDA's.
> Companies have an extremely bad habbit of charging 5 and sometimes 10
> times or more as much as the equivalent product that can be purchased at
> a retail store simply because their product is packaged for use by blind
> or visually impaired people.  With as much free and open source software
> as this thing is using, they should be able to keep the price down to a
> reasonable level.
>
> Basically, make it affordable for someone on a disability check or who
> works in a workshop, or else a lot of blind people won't be able to buy
> it.  All they will be able to do is think how nice it would be to have
> such a nice piece of technology and wonder why it costs so much when
> they could go to the store and pick up the same thing for under $300 if
> only they had sight.
>
> Sorry for the rant,
> Lorenzo
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