[Reader-users] i dont get it

[Cindy Handel]

I agree, Kimberly.  We recently got the ability to read paper money.  But, 
if there will be no further updates for the software, we won't be able to 
identify the money when it's changed to different colors, or whatever 
they're doing.

I really hope we won't be left out in the cold if we decide not to go to the 
phone.  It's been called an upgrade, but I'm not so sure...it's just 
different.

Cindy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kimberly Morrow, PhD." <morrowmediakc at yahoo.com>
To: <carcione at access.net>
Cc: <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] i dont get it


The main thing I want to know is: If my KNFB Reader Classic ever needs 
repaired, will repairs be  supported? Will upgrades continue to be available 
for the Classic. Not all of us will want to purchase this new cell phone 
reader. Phones are her today, gone tomorrow. When I got my Reader, I 
presumed that, like many of the other scanning products on the market, it 
would be updated for a period of time and then after seven years or so, 
would gradually be phased out. I was very impressed with the upgrades KNFB 
had available for the Reader Classic, and it was my hope (and my 
understanding) that those upgrades would continue. Some of us prefer this 
Reader over the cell phone. So now what?

Kimberly in KC

Tracy Carcione wrote:
> This is not my experience.  Some people can get someone else to buy access
> equipment, and some people can't.  My employer bought the braille display
> I have at work.  I bought the one I have at home.  I bought my KNFB
> reader.  Plenty of other people I know also bought their readers
> themselves, getting the money together one way or another.
> But I'm with the guy who started this tread.  How can a cell phone be
> better stronger faster than a PDA?  The PDA's not that old.  It doesn't
> make sense to me.
> Tracy
>> I think it is a good deal easier for americans to obtain equipment.
>> There access for employers and so on is a good deal better than here
>> in the UK. If your blind over there you get braille displays just
>> because you sort of want them. Over here we have to justify, justify,
>> justify etc.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> -James-
>> On 4 Feb 2008, at 12:33, Keith and Tracy wrote:
>>
>>> I think you are mistaken about the  funding aspect.  The deaf has
>>> closed
>>> captioning on TV shows and movies, which is madated by the feds.
>>> The tv and
>>> movie studeios have lobbyists up the wazoo, telling congress that
>>> they don't
>>> want to fund Descriptive video for shoes and movies.  If you are
>>> talking
>>> aobut Lion's clubs, even Iraq has Lion's clubs.
>>>
>>> Keith
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "william lomas" <lomaswilliam at googlemail.com>
>>> To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list"
>>> <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 1:28 AM
>>> Subject: [Reader-users] i dont get it
>>>
>>>
>>>> hi all
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> how have they maxed out the hardware of that PDA for the classic
>>>> it is ten times faster than an average mobile phone is much much much
>>>> faster, and no one is going to fund you buying a phone to have OCR on
>>>> it if you want it for a job
>>>> you guys are all blinded by technology it hillarious
>>>> so what it is a mboile phone? big deal, 90 percent of us here already
>>>> own them
>>>> you'll ahve to buy a new phone? oh it ok as you US guys get
>>>> everything
>>>> phones, funding for this, funding for that, we get nothing here in
>>>> the
>>>> UK
>>>> i feel so sorry for those people who brought the classic for example,
>>>> were told it would work in their langauge i.e to read spanish french
>>>> german, and are now told thanks for your money but we are scrweing
>>>> you
>>>> over, buy out new product now to get what you should have had int he
>>>> old one it pathetic
>>>>
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