[access-uk] Re: Cobolt compass, beware

  • From: "Angel" <angel238@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:49:56 -0400

I don't know, for the life of me, why designers for blind products think we 
blind have no sense of style.  It seems they deliberately take double advantage 
of us.  As they know we are a small market, wanting access, as would anyone.  
So they feel as we haven't a choice they can get away with selling to us ugly 
products.  If they thought of us as they think of themselves, they would 
realize if they wouldn't want to be seen with an ugly piece of equipment, 
neither would we. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ANDY COLLINS 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 5:41 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] Cobolt compass, beware


  Hi all -

  Another waste of dosh! I think I paid about £35 for this, and it's a load of 
rubbish. My experience with 
  it, found it to be both inaccurate and unpredictable. 

  Like many things produce for blind people, it is also very ugly, and cheap 
looking/feeling.

  I'm not just banging the old drum of complaint against equipment produced for 
the blind. In fact, it saddens me to find yet again the same experience, of 
over-priced [but I do understand the niche market equals fewer sales argument] 
ugly build, hardly fit for purpose, assistive equipment.

    I always try to buy where I can, mainstream equipment, and figure out how 
to get the best from it, but sometimes, mainstream can be too non-accessible, 
and I am forced to go to the so-called specialists. It truly gives me no 
pleasure in bringing to the attention of the list this poor piece of specialist 
equipment, but I think we need to keep shouting for equality in product 
performance, reliability, and aesthetic appeal. I don't want big clunky stuff 
in my pockets, or around my house, just because it can talk, or give me some 
other kind of additional feedback. As I have said before on this list, the PTR1 
was the most over-priced, mal-functioning, hugely ugly piece of junk, I've ever 
wasted 600 quid on. Sadly, I've wasted 35 on a useless compass, that thinks 
North is wherever it fancies, on any given day -

  Andy

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