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 > > ----- Original Message ----- > 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 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > - -- > Keep American Idol great! Vote for Mandisa! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEKviQG9IpekrhBfIRAuitAJ0ZKGhrAIuyBM6Hwws2Sb+NsUIMUwCfT7Wn > 2vPwXryVarqMv3OkrwUdmGo= > =ePn8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
