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Festival International de Jazz de Montréal more accessible than ever!This is great! Go Humanware.
Sherri
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        Festival International de Jazz de Montréal more accessible than ever!
            New talking GPS Trekker Breeze makes world première
            MONTREAL, June 9, 2009 - To help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal this year, the Festival, HumanWare and the Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille (INLB), have joined forces to make the programming and outdoor sites more accessible than ever. The new talking GPS Trekker Breeze will be made available to visually impaired festival goers so they can more easily find their way around the site. It's a world first!

            Participants with vision loss can come to the HumanWare-INLB booth to borrow a Trekker Breeze at no cost for a number of hours. They can then choose their next stop on the site from a list of prerecorded points of interest. Be it one of the many outdoor stages, a group of merchant booths, washroom facilities, or access to a métro station or bus stop, Breeze users need only follow the voice instructions to easily find their way to their destination. Festival goers who already have a Humanware GPS for the visually impaired can download the list of points of interest from www.humanware.com/jazz free of charge. Users of software or DAISY-format talking book players. such as the Victor Reader Stream, can also download the programming for all concerts.

            The Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille, which helped develop and test the Trekker Breeze, will also join in the festivities by offering information about visual disabilities. Passersby will be able to learn about the effects of various diseases of the eye by trying on simulation glasses made available by the INLB.

            This year marks the 200th anniversary since the birth of Louis Braille, inventor of the Braille writing system for the visually impaired. What better way to mark the anniversary than by attending the free concert by Stevie Wonder, the Grand événement General Motors on June 30, 2009?

            For more information, visit www.humanware.com/jazz or contact Humanware at 1-888-723-7273, or call the Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille at 1-800-361-7013.

            About HumanWare

            HumanWare (http://www.humanware.com) is the global leader in assistive technologies for the print disabled. It creates products for people who are blind, have low vision and/or have learning disabilities. The innovative range of HumanWare products includes BrailleNote, the leading productivity device for the blind in education and business, as well as for personal use; the Victor Reader line, the world's leading digital audiobook players; and SmartView Xtend, the first fully modular and upgradeable CCTV-based video magnifier.

            About the Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille 

            Located in Longueuil, the Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille is the only Quebec rehabilitation centre solely for people with visual impairments. It aims to achieve the social, educational, professional and community integration of people affected by partial or total loss of vision. Offering a range of specially adapted services, it serves the Montreal, Montérégie and Laval areas. For more information about the Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille, visit: www.inlb.qc.ca.




            Source: HumanWare and the Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille

            Information:


            Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille:

            Jade St-Jean
            Morin Relations Publiques
            Téléphone : 514 289-8688, poste 235 
            Mobile : 514 716-7530 
            jade at morinrp.com 


            Humanware:

            Nicolas Lagacé
            Communications and Marketing
            HumanWare
            Tel.: 450-463-1717, ext. 341
            nicolas.lagace at humanware.com 











           
       

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