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"Dominique Farrell" <hollyandopal@xxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:13:26 +0100

QRead - FOR THE BLIND HIT'S THE MARKET (a while ago)
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From: Philip Doyle 
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Subject: [IrelandVIPNews] QRead - FOR THE BLIND HIT'S THE MARKET (a whileago)

Hello all, 

This has just come to hand and might be of interest especially to those of you 
who attended the VICS Jubilee event last Saturday where an E-BOOK READER was on 
display.

Philip Doyle

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Contact: Jamie Principato

Director of Public Relations

(from the UK) Phone: (001-239)810-4951

E-Mail: pr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pr%40q-continuum.net>  

MOST AFFORDABLE E-BOOK READER FOR THE BLIND HIT'S THE MARKET. 

Blind Readers Can Access eText for Less than the Cost of an Evening Out. 

Mar 2, 2012: In the age of technology, when most people turn to the Internet 
for information, and a laptop is practically a necessity in the workplace or at 
school, the e-book is rapidly becoming as common and important to daily life as 
its paper-bound counterpart. 

Access to printed information for the Blind is more important now than ever, 
and though there is a variety of software available to make electronic books 
and documents accessible, it either comes complete with a price only few could 
afford without assistance from a school or rehab agency, or does not allow the 
reader to open even a minority of the various eText formats. Christopher Toth, 
a blind software developer, aims to change that with QRead, the first e-reader 
for the blind affordable even to the average college student. 

QRead is a program providing blind users with fast and Efficient screen-reader 
access to most common e-book formats, including Both PDF, the industry standard 
for textbooks, ePub, a format popular For technical titles and fiction as well 
as many others. Users can Open and tab between an unlimited number of books, 
place an unlimited number of bookmarks, and return to their current place in 
each book even after a session has ended. QRead offers the ability to read 
continuously, "skim" through a text by percentage, and even search for specific 
passages with its "Find" feature. 

QRead interfaces directly with all major screen reading software, including 
JAWS for Windows, Window-Eyes, Super Nova, System Access, and the free and open 
source NVDA. 

The program goes on sale today for an introductory price of $20, And is 
expected to retail for $30. Its nearest competitors are Available for upwards 
of $80. 

Mr. Toth says his software offers a unique benefit in addition To 
affordability. 

"Historically, access to PDF, ePub and other eText formats has been cumbersome, 
difficult or even impossible. I invented QRead to fix this, and in the process 
have created a tool which will vastly improve your reading experience, 
regardless if you're a casual reader, student, or professional", he states. 

For more information about QRead and other accessibility software developed by 
Toth, visit http://q-continuum.net/ . 

ABOUT THE DEVELOPER: 

Christopher Toth is a freelance software developer in Tallahassee, Florida. His 
projects focus primarily on breaking down the Access barriers faced by blind 
consumers of technology on a daily basis. 

He is the creator of Hope, the accessible Pandora Radio client, and contributes 
regularly to various open-source projects. Toth has been blind since early 
infancy as a result of Retinoblastoma, and started writing software while he 
was in high school. He founded Q Software Solutions as a means of distributing 
his ideas and his code to Those who will find it most useful. 

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