[nfbcs] Celebrating the 75th Birthday of the National Federation of the Blind

[Curtis Chong]

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_Riccobon
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