[nabs-l] Independence with a Price Tag

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Jedi and listers,

    You can do either. His e-mail address is:
officeofthepresident at nfb.org


    I hope others will do likewise.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jedi" <loneblindjedi at samobile.net>
To: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Independence with a Price Tag


I will Peter. Should we write him by e-mail, by snail mail, or call?

Respectfully,
Jedi


Original message:
> Hello Sarah and listers,

>     One way is for us to contact Dr. Maurer to ask him to include this 
> item
> on the main convention agenda. I can do this but I'm only one voice. This 
> is
> more likely to happen if he receives a large number of requests from 
> members
> wanting this item to be on the convention agenda for discussion. Who else
> will contact him with the same request?

> Peter Donahue


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sarah alawami" <marrie12 at gmail.com>
> To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 2:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Independence with a Price Tag


> Agreed. Is there a way we could arange that?  I refuse to speak in public
> though. Lol. I suck.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of Peter Donahue
> Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 11:13 AM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Independence with a Price Tag

> Hello Dave and listers,

>     And what about the fact that some of what we pay for this stuff has 
> been
> used by one vendor to sue the competition in an attempt to monopolize the
> industry?  All of us are feeling the desperation and disgust over this
> situation that has gone on for too long. Perhaps it's time to stop
> circulating the same old fashion voodoo we've heard for years concerning
> nitch markets, high development and production costs ,etc, and that a
> full-scale investigation in to the development, marketing and pricing
> practices of these companies be launched! There are too many voices 
> speaking
> out against the state of adaptive technology marketing and such to 
> continue
> to ignore it.
> Something must change!

>     I was reminded of this last night when Mary expressed her frustration 
> to
> me over not being able to send in her Pack Mate for some needed repairs 
> due
> to the high cost. She lost several family members to cancer and has been
> recommended for a colonoscopy. She was scheduled to have one of these 
> exams
> last fall but had to back out due to the high co-payment charged by the
> hospital. The money had to go to repairing some of our adaptive technology
> instead. When people are forced to jeopardize their health in order to 
> keep
> their access technology up-to-date and working we have a serious problem
> which can no longer be tolerated!

>     A main agenda item of this year's national convention will be
> technology. Perhaps time should be made for presentations by the 
> technology
> vendors and discussions to find ways of developing this technology while
> holding down and reducing costs to users. JMO.

> Peter Donahue

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Independence with a Price Tag


> Yes the technology is expensive and no one likes it, but you are
> throwing around words like "overpriced," and "steal money" with
> little regard for the truth.  This does nothing towards improving the
> situation.

> Dave

> At 10:41 AM 2/3/2010, you wrote:
>> I believe that we shouldn't have to pay so much for technology.
>> There comes a point where we are all going to have to pay for things
>> like the BrailleNote that I wrote this e-mail on.  It's ridiculous
>> how companies like HumanWare Ltd and Freedom Scientific, for
>> example, overprice their products so that they can steal taxpayer
>> money and then market to a tiny group of people.  The problem is we
>> need this technology in order to do something a sighted person would
>> do such as check e-mail like a sighted person would on his or her
>> i-phone.  Good points, Joe.
>> Beth


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