Dorene Cornwell wrote:
> Yeah. if you go with conventional revenue models sure it's hard to 
> show a market.
>
> But the universe of people who benefits is everyone who needs to call 
> a blind person 

This is incorrect. the people who need to call blind people do not 
benefit from screen access technology. They do not have any difficulties 
making the call. If you are refering to accessing the caller ID, 
marketing companies actually would be detramented by your ability to 
determine their nature before you answer the phone.

That said, there are at least three other groups which would benefit 
from screen access technology becoming standard in mobile phones. What 
groups of people can you all think of?

David Chittenden, MS, CRC, MRCAA

> and all the telephone co's who should be facing federal mandates to 
> make their services accessible. So the question is what needs to 
> happen so investors see the payoff from serving that whole market?
>
> I live in Seattle so I basically have no opinion of NY Governor David 
> Paterson's political career except lately some state senator has been 
> going around saying his vision impairment is getting in the way of his 
> effectiveness as a governor because she cannot get hold of him on a 
> Blackberry. From what I have read there are several dimensions of the 
> issue besides Gov. Paterson's blindness, but it's the perfect 
> illustration of my point. Add to that all the grumbles people have 
> been sharing related to Harry's FCC complaint.
>
> In my opinion, the telco's should ALL be interested in things like 
> your software to make their services more useful to everyone.
>
> Now, as for making the presentation....
>
> DoreneC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Rossi <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] new Braille displays in the works!
>
> I have to fully agree with Terri, as I am in the same exact position as
> she has described.  Using some small grant money to pay for students 
> time,
> I have worked with a professor here at CMU, and these students, and have
> developed some useful software.  However, the process of moving this from
> a working prototype to a marketable product has been, well, it has been
> impossible so far.  One of the largest problems is that I know the
> business plan looks terrible.  How many blind cell phone users, that use
> one of the cell phone screen readers, are there out there.  Of those
> people, what percent would purchase this software?  It is very difficult
> to make a good business case for an investor.
>
> It's a challenge which I have not found a satisfactory solution to as of
> yet.
>
> -- 
> Blue skies.
> Dan Rossi
> Carnegie Mellon University.
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