[Electronics-talk] Purchasing Adaptive Equipment

[cheez]

I think most states have similar programs.  But for some reason, I think 
they are not issuing moneys due to the budget crisis.
Vince

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Aldrich" <jajkaldrich at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 9:26 AM
Subject: [Electronics-talk] Purchasing Adaptive Equipment


> Hi all!
>
> Montana and Wyoming have specific state programs which can be utilized for
> purchasing adaptive equipment!
>
> I believe a few things need to be said about adaptive equipment!  Shop
> around before you purchase especially when one has more available today 
> than
> at any time in the past!  Of course, there is the specific adaptive 
> products
> for the blind.  Yet!  There are others which can work right out of the 
> box!
> The I products as Iphone, Ipod and Ipad come to mind!  More on these 
> later!
> We unfortunately are paying much too much for out of date technology when
> purchasing any of the blindness notetakers!  Some years ago, I bought a
> Voice Sense!  I'm happy with it for the most part for what I use it for!
> Now that I have high speed internet from my cable company, I cannot use my
> Voice Sense online.  My modem will allow most devices to connect with 
> either
> TKIP or AES connections.  That is all I'll say about this specifically but
> every PC in my house, my ipod and Iphone connect fine with my present
> router.  Even my BPP and my Wife's Plextalk Pocket connect fine with my
> router.  This is not so with my Voice Sense!  I don't believe any of these
> $6000 blindness notetakers will work with my present high speed cable
> connection!  I feel fortunate I don't have all this money tied up in
> something I can no longer use online.  I brought this up with my cable
> company and they thought I was from outer space somehow!  One can pay
> considerably less for a bluetooth braille display which connects with
> bluetooth with Ipod and IPhone.  I'm finding I can do Email much easier on
> my Ipod or Iphone than I can the VS.  Perhaps one day, I'll get that
> refreshabraille from APH but this is considerably less than the notetaker.
> I can get material onto my notetaker via USb which is fine but I may as 
> well
> have a Braille and Speak which I also liked when I had one!  So when you 
> get
> anything else, ask questions before you purchase!  Braille and speech are
> coming into their own on more and more devices especially I products and
> Android platform.  For now, I won't buy any blindness notetaker at any 
> price
> unless it connects with most modern day internet protocols.  I visited 
> some
> friends recently!  They had no security on their router so they could
> accommodate their blindness notetakers.  Mine worked reasonably well but I
> thought it was ashamed they had to dum down what was available to them. 
> We
> use the same internet provider.  My wife and I have moved on and left our
> notetakers behind!  It is a shame our state services pay for this over
> priced out of date stuff!
>
> For whatever it is worth!
>
> Jim
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