New Linux PDA For Blind People

[Janina Sajka]

There is no "original" PDA here. This is the original PDA. It's designed
from the ground up. Unlike some other devices, it's not a screen reader
on top of some mainstream device.

Glenn at home writes:
> If they charged something like 1 hundred more than the original P D A, they 
> would make a killing!
> Volume sales!
> Glenn
> 
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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 3:13 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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