BLIND SHOUTCASTERS BRIDGE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

Monday 18 March 2002

This month ACB Radio Interactive and Serotek Corporation enter into a joint
promotion to give listeners several chances to bring someone not computer
savvy online.

Serotek Corporation, developer of the exciting and groundbreaking Freedom
Box product range being exhibited this week at the annual "Technology and
Persons with Disabilities" conference held at California State University,
have chosen to partner with ACB Radio Interactive to give listeners the
chance of winning over $1500 of Serotek products.

For decades we have all dreamed of a computer that we could simply talk to
and it would do what we ask.  Now it exists and is called the Freedom Box.
During the next four weeks a lucky few ACB Radio Interactive listeners,
their families and friends, will have several chances of winning one of
three Freedom Box packages donated by Serotek Corporation.

The Freedom Box from Serotek Corporation is a revolutionary new product
which allows a user full access to the Internet just by using their voice.
The Freedom Box software can connect to a users' favourite Web sites and
turn all the links on the page into
simple voice commands.  This is particularly advantageous for many people
with disabilities who have difficulty in using: a computer keyboard, mouse,
operating system or expensive and often confusing adaptive technology.

Listeners to ACB Radio Interactive can get their names in a draw by sending
email to
[log in to unmask]
when they hear the Freedom Box login sound
immediately followed by a song with the word "Freedom" in the title.  3
packages are up for grabs: 2 software packages which can turn any modern
Internet-ready computer into a Freedom Box, plus 1 state-of-the-art Freedom
Box Standalone Edition.

ACB Radio Interactive and Serotek Corporation would very much like to bring
someone not computer savvy online.  If the winner of a Freedom Box
standalone edition, donates the box to an offline friend or family member,
Serotek will throw in an extra Freedom Box software package for the original
winner completely free!

ACB Radio produces and makes available an astonishingly wide variety of
entertaining and informative programming aimed primarily at the blind
community and those interested in blindness related issues.  ACB Radio
Interactive is one of 4 Internet radio channels owned and supported by the
American Council of the Blind.  ACB Radio Interactive, which came online in
September of 2000, brings together more than 30 blind and low-vision
volunteer DJs from 7 countries on 3 continents.

ACB Radio Interactive:
http://interactive.acbradio.org

American Council of the Blind:
http://www.acb.org

The Freedom Box:
http://www.freedombox.info

California State University Centre On Disabilities
'Technology and Persons with Disabilities', March 2002 Conference:
http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf2002/



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