[Ohio-talk] Fwd: [Trainer-talk] Freedom Scientific Offering Amazing Discounts at NFB Convention

[Marianne Denning]

Read this!  I hope this is true.  This is a great deal for anyone
going to NFB convention.

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From: David Goldfield via Trainer-talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 18:43:29 -0400
Subject: [Trainer-talk] Freedom Scientific Offering Amazing Discounts
at NFB Convention
To: List for teachers and trainers of adaptive technology
<trainer-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: David Goldfield <disciple1211 at verizon.net>

Freedom Scientific made some announcements this week via its FSCast
podcast, with Jonathan Mosen breaking the news.  If any of you are
planning to go to the NFB convention this year, this should be of great
interest to you if you own or are considering buying software from
Freedom Scientific.
First, ACB convention attendees will be offered slight discounts on FS
products. There will be a ten percent discount on Freedom Scientific
software. This would cover JAWS, MAGic and OpenBook. Five percent
discounts are available on FS hardware products. While Jonathan Mosen
did not mention specific products I am assuming that this would cover
products such as the Sara stand-alone readers, their various video
magnifiers, Braille displays, Plextalk Pocket and even the Pac Mate, if
you can justify buying that particular device.
Jonathan explained that Freedom Scientific offers something known as
home-use programs for certain organizations, which they started doing
last year. This is a program offered to companies which have many
software installations for their employees and the home use program
allows employees of such companies to purchase a product like JAWS at a
considerable discount. Other tech companies do this for certain
organizations. As an example, when my wife was a college student the
university she was attending was able to offer her new, legal copies of
software at very, very inexpensive pricing. Apparently, Freedom
Scientific offers similar programs. Jonathan mentioned that
organizations such as the IRS, Social Security and some state agencies
for the blind are able to offer discounts to their staff. Since NFB uses
many copies of JAWS at its headquarters and because it is celebrating
its 75th birthday this year, Freedom Scientific is extending this same
pricing offer to all registered attendees of this year's NFB convention,
regardless of where you work or, for that matter, whether you're
employed or not. These offers are only for the duration of the NFB
convention and you must actually visit FS at the exhibit hall to obtain
their products at this special pricing.
A complete JAWS 16 Home Edition license will be available, under the
conditions I've described above, for $75.00. This is not a misprint:
that's seventy-five dollars. This is not an upgrade but will get you a
brand new JAWS 16 license. If you already own an older  version of JAWS
you can upgrade your old version to version 16 for just $50.00. For this
offer, it doesn't matter which version of JAWS you own; it can be an
upgrade from version 14 or from version 2.0.\
An SMA will cost you $100.00.
New copies of OpenBook are available for $75.00.
MAGic with speech can be purchased for $50.00.
  MAGic SMAs are being offered for $75.00.
I have proofread this message and what you are reading is not a series
of misprints.
Also, FS will be demonstrating JAWS 16 with an intro to Windows 10.
Since it is possible that we may see Windows 10 released by the end of
July it sounds like that JAWS 16 will be able to work with Windows 10,
without users needing to go to JAWS 17 to obtain Windows 10 support.
I am personally quite excited about this series of offers. My personal
JAWS license is stuck at version 6.0 and, as a trainer, I do need to
update my license but frankly cannot afford to do so. However, as I have
family in that area I am seriously considering attending my first NFB
convention to upgrade my version of JAWS.

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