Pannon Mobile Internet Helps Reduce Barriers for the Blind

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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 06:37:09 -0500
Pannon Telecommunications Ltd., Hungary
Monday, November 19, 2007

Pannon Mobile Internet Helps Reduce Barriers for the Blind

By Press Release

"Ubiquitous" access to computers and the Internet is especially important for 
the blind

In the recent past, Pannon gave away portable computers to 25 NGOs including 
free Internet access up 10 GB, which is practically unlimited for almost all 
purposes. The VIZUS Foundation was one of the organisations receiving new 
laptops. The Foundation supports the blind and the dim-sighted by organising 
prevention-rehabilitation and spare time and sporting activities. This is in 
addition to educational and cultural programs, which give special emphasis to 
blind students' out of school activities including education and vocational 
trainings.

"Thanks to Pannon Mobile Internet we can deliver programs to challenged 
children and adults, which help them feel equal to the sighted giving them the 
chance to experience equal opportunity", said Dr. Emese Majorosi, Pannon's 
Press & Info Director.

The spreading of audio in computing was a significant breakthrough for the 
seeing impaired. Since the replacement of old-style typewriters using dot 
characters and the Braille alphabet with laptops supporting audio and Internet 
connection, the barriers of information access have disappeared. Access to 
technology made entry into higher education and language learning much easier 
for young people. In turn, job searching and the integration into society 
became much less of a challenge. The blind usually rely on computers for taking 
notes at school or accessing key information at the workplace, so the 
portability and ease of use provided by laptops and mobile phones is especially 
important for them. Mobile computers with wireless Internet connectivity all 
over the country are essential for their daily life and continued integration 
into the greater society.

"Our colleagues travelling the country with their laptops equipped with mobile 
Internet access can present the Foundation's free computer software, as well as 
other information and communication tools available to the blind, e.g. the 
Digital Library for the Sightless, which is the largest electronic library for 
the blind including several novels, plays, short story and poem collections, as 
well as history and cultural history related works", said Vanda Cseke, 
Chairwoman of the Foundation's Board of Curators.

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