[Nfbc-info] FW: [nfbwnews] Fwd: [Nfbnet-members-list] Fwd: [nfbcs] Celebrating the 75th Birthday of the National Federation of the Blind

[Michael Hingson]

Greetings and felicitations:
>> 
>> People who attend conventions of the National Federation of the Blind 
>> often receive benefits that are not available anywhere else. For 
>> example, last year, at our 2014 national convention, Federationists 
>> were able to obtain a free iBill currency reader long before anyone else
in the country.
>> 
>> At this year's convention of the National Federation of the Blind, 
>> Freedom Scientific, maker of the well-known JAWS, MAGic, and OpenBook 
>> programs, is wishing the National Federation of the Blind a happy 
>> 75th birthday by offering these programs at a tremendous discount. 
>> These discounts are available only to registered attendees of the 
>> convention and only if they visit the Freedom Scientific booth in the 
>> convention exhibit hall. You can hear about this on FS Cast #108, 
>> available for download at 
>> http://podcast.freedomscientific.com/FSCast/episodes/FSCast108-Mark_R
>> iccobon
>> o,Robin_Drodge.mp3.
>> 
>> Here are the details:
>> 
>> 1.         A brand new copy of JAWS 16 home user edition will be
available
>> for $75. A service maintenance agreement will cost only $100; this 
>> will ensure that you are able to obtain the next two versions of 
>> JAWS: versions
>> 17 and 18. Normally, the home edition of JAWS sells for $895.
>> 2.         If you own an older copy of JAWS, regardless of its age, you
will
>> be able to upgrade to the home edition of JAWS 16 for $50. As with 
>> the brand new copy, a service maintenance agreement is available for 
>> $100. Anyone who has ever had to pay for an upgrade to his/her JAWS 
>> license knows that an upgrade can cost several hundred dollars, 
>> depending on how many versions one has to traverse.
>> 
>> 3.         If you are interested in a screen enlargement program with
>> speech, MAGic version 13 will be sold for $50, and a service 
>> maintenance agreement for this software is available for $75. MAGic 
>> with speech normally sells for $595.
>> 
>> 4.         Finally, If you are interested in a print-reading program,
>> Freedom Scientific's OpenBookR OCR software is available for $75. 
>> OpenBookR normally sells for $995.
>> 
>> Again, this offer is available only to registered attendees of the 
>> 2015 National Federation of the Blind convention, and attendees must 
>> visit the Freedom Scientific booth in the convention exhibit hall.
>> 
>> This is a good example of a significant benefit that is only 
>> available to people attending conventions of the National Federation of
the Blind.
>> 
>> Cordially,
>> 
>> Curtis Chong, President
>> National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science