[access-uk] Re: purchasing specialist equipment idea, what do you think?

  • From: <Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:06:55 +0000

Hi Adrian,

Cost of research and development and the fact that blind people can only be a 
small market. That was the problem that Pure came up against when trying to 
sell Sonus 1XT with talking menus. The solution would be to design mainstream 
hardware so that it would be suitable for blind and partially-sighted people to 
use, incorporating speech into it as part of the package. That's why Apple is 
finding so much favour with V I people. Time and again we find that an item, 
such as a caller display is under 20 quid in the high street, but more than 
four times the price if we look for one that we can use. And the technology to 
include speech isn't rocket science any more.

Best,
Clive

  


Clive Lever
Diversity and Equality Officer
Kent County Council
 
Office: 01622 221163
Email: clive.lever@xxxxxxxxxxx 
 
 
Kent County Council
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Maidstone, Kent.
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Adrien Collins
Sent: 27 September 2012 16:32
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: purchasing specialist equipment idea, what do you 
think?

Hi 

Yes but on another note, why do they have to be so expensive in the first 
place, isn't it supply and demand? 


Adrien

 
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian McNamara
Sent: 24 September 2012 11:15
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: purchasing specialist equipment idea, what do you 
think?

Hi, yes I think all companies should offer something like the easy pay like 
RNIB offer. I do think that something should be done about this. It would make 
products more affordable and allow more of us to buy some of these products 
that we may find useful in our personal lives.

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