Fw: BlindNews: Partisanship put aside to give Internet access to blind

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From: "Leon Gilbert" <BlindNews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 7:42 AM
Subject: BlindNews: Partisanship put aside to give Internet access to blind


> Arizona Republic
> Tuesday, July 05, 2005
>
> Partisanship put aside to give Internet access to blind
>
> It's not unusual for someone in business to ask a member of Congress for
help. But when Craig Columbus got together with Rep. J.D. Hayworth to give a
boost to an Arizona start-up, the partnership was also a happy contradiction
of our era's nasty partisanship.
>
> Columbus, you may recall, challenged Hayworth for his seat in 2002. That
didn't matter as Hayworth was happy to be an early adopter of Web streaming
technology that gives the blind access to the Internet. Hayworth will use
the prototype technology on his congressional Web site.
>
> The company behind the software is AudioEye, which was started in 2002 by
University of Arizona grads Nathan Bradley and David Ide. Columbus, who now
manages a hedge fund as vice chairman of Greenbook Financial Services,
provided seed capital and guidance to the start-up. advertisement
>
> AudioEye will let the blind or people with poor vision bypass buying
costly hardware or software. It's free to users when the Web site buys a
license.
>
> "I am a businessman who called my congressman," Columbus said. "But we
have set the bar so low in America that people are genuinely surprised that
men of different political parties would work together to help the disabled
the best way they each know how. J.D. has asked for nothing in return and is
using his office to promote the common good through a locally developed
technology. Hayworth deserves all the credit in this case."
>
> www.audioeye.com
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http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/0705talton05.html
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