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Hi,
please if appropriate pass this onto the list and
all other blindness email lists.
starting next week the $99 www.cherrypal.com africa netbook will be
shipping with either windows xp or Ubuntu Linux. So instead of paying $6000 for
a brailleNote, you could pay $1900 for the Africa and aph refreshabraille. I
have written the owner of cherrypal asking him to include NVDA, firefox, and
Jarte in there also.
Why pay $6000 for a braillenote when the Africa
costing $99 and a new refreshabraille costing $1695 you have a notetaker with
braille display for $1800 or so. Don't feel like paying $1695 for a braille
display? I've seen themm on the ACB braille forum high tech swap shop for $100
or so at times and also on ebay.
so with that combination you can now have a decent
notetaker with speech, spend $50 on ms-office, download simpleocr or buy
fineReader pay $50 for a cannon canoscan and you have yourself an ok notetaker
and reading system for $200 or $300. So once again starting next week cherrypal
will ship the Africa netbook with your choice of Ubuntu or Windows xp,
hopefully, eventually knoppix and knoppix-adriane as well. and perhaps later
down the line, vinux.
Josh Kennedy jkenn337 gmail com Tired of Microsoft Windows and paying thousands for screen-readers? try out NVDA for Windows, or try out and switch to grml, Ubuntu, Vinux, or knoppix-adriane Linux desktops. Knoppix ubuntu and vinux-cli-max are the most accessible for beginners. |