[Blindtlk] Fwd: Happy Birthday Mr. Braille! — $200 discount on our Braille products

[David Andrews]

>
>HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. BRAILLE!
>
>Longueuil, January 6th, 2008  —  January 4th 
>2009 marked the two  hundredth anniversary of 
>the birth of Louis Braille. Louis Braille is the 
>inventor of the Braille reading and writing 
>system used internationally by people who are 
>blind and visually impaired. It is the only 
>method by which the blind can be truly 
>literate.  Statistics show that 85% of employed 
>blind people use Braille to perform part of their job.
>
>HumanWare has been at the forefront of providing 
>award-winning Braille solutions for both 
>students and professionals. HumanWare's 
>BrailleNote note takers are used by thousands of 
>students and professionals who create and access 
>documents and books to be read in 
>Braille.  HumanWare offers other Braille 
>solutions from the pocketsize BrailleConnect for 
>use with mobile devices and laptops, several 
>sizes of the Brailliant Braille displays for the 
>workplace, and personal and institutional Braille embossers.
>
>HumanWare will be celebrating this two hundredth 
>anniversary throughout the year with many future 
>announcements. To begin the year with the true 
>spirit, HumanWare is pleased to offer to all of 
>our customers in the Americas a $200 discount on 
>the purchase on any of our Braille products.
>
>HumanWare realizes that much work remains to be 
>done to insure that all blind individuals have 
>an opportunity to learn and use Braille. 
>HumanWare has worked on many initiatives in the 
>past to make Braille more accessible and will 
>vigorously pursue these activities in 2009 and 
>beyond to make illiteracy among the blind a thing of the past.
>
>This offer is limited to the month of January 
>2009 and applies only to the following products:
>
>• BrailleNote mPower
>• BrailleNote Deaf-Blind Communicator
>• BrailleNote PK
>• BrailleConnect
>• Brailliant
>• Mountbatten Brailler (in U.S.A. only)
>• ViewPlus Braille Embossers
>About HumanWare
>HumanWare (www.humanware.com) is the global 
>leader in assistive technologies for the print 
>disabled. HumanWare provides products to people 
>who are blind and have low vision and students 
>with learning disabilities. HumanWare offers a 
>collection of innovative products include 
>BrailleNote, the leading productivity device for 
>the blind in education, business and for 
>personal use; the Victor Reader product line, 
>the world's leading digital audiobook players, 
>and SmartView Xtend, the first fully modular and 
>upgradeable CCTV-based video magnifier.
>
>For more information:
>HumanWare
>Nicolas Lagace
>Tel.: (450) 463-1717
>E-mail: nicolas.lagace at humanware.com

David Andrews and white cane Harry.