[Mt-blind] Jonathan Mosen Joins Freedom Scientific

[Bruce & Joy]

FYI from the Freedom Scientific web site.  Joy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact: Brad Davis
Blind/Low Vision Group
800-444-4443 or 727-803-8000
www.FreedomScientific.com

Jonathan Mosen Joins Freedom Scientific

(St. Petersburg, Florida, August 31, 2006) -

Freedom Scientific's open platform approach to hardware and software has 
brought over another major voice in the field of access technology for the 
blind.

Jonathan Mosen, previously of HumanWare, is the new Vice President of 
Blindness Hardware Product management at Freedom Scientific's Blind/Low 
Vision Group.

"Freedom Scientific's products emphasize the strengths of an open-platform 
approach to both hardware and software," Mosen said. "This approach 
showcases
the company's ability to leverage mainstream applications and technology 
elements to provide technology solutions for those that are blind in a 
timely manner."

"I'm excited to be joining the Freedom Scientific team," Mosen said. 
"Freedom Scientific products enable blind people world wide to succeed in 
school, work,
and the community. It's great to have the opportunity to shape the direction 
of Freedom Scientific's hardware products in close consultation with 
customers.
I am especially excited to be on board with a company that is so clearly 
setting the pace for new product introduction and affordability in this 
industry."

Mosen has been involved with blindness-related issues since the late 1980s 
and has been in the access technology field since 1999. He worked with the 
Association of Blind Citizens of New Zealand and the American Council of the 
Blind. One of his most significant contributions to blindness in New Zealand 
was his work
to reform the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind's constitutional 
framework to become the Foundation of the Blind.

"It will be great to have the chance to work with some of the sharpest minds 
in the industry, both blind and sighted, to allow blind people to be more 
productive,
more independent, and more efficient," Mosen said. "I've always admired the 
fact Freedom Scientific has blind people involved extensively in the company
at all levels. This sits well with my own personal philosophy, that we, as 
blind people, must take control of our own destiny and improve the world."

Brad Davis, Vice President of Hardware Product Management at Freedom 
Scientific, said he thinks it will be exciting to see Mosen apply his ideas 
and experiences
in the less confining environment made possible by Freedom Scientific's use 
of mainstream applications.

"Jonathan will help us make best use of both our hardware and software 
resources to bring solutions to a broader range of users," Davis said.

Lee Hamilton, President and CEO of Freedom Scientific, said that Mosen has 
great rapport with users and that he looks forward to Mosen bringing his 
insight
to Freedom Scientific's blindness products.