Just after reading the discussion of the Haven, I saw this message 
that was posted to the ACB Leadership list.

With AT&T plus Nokia giving away a screen reader that is at least 
partially functional, it is wishful thinking that maybe the prices on 
some of the other software packages will drop in order to keep them 
selling.

Well, it's fun to think of lower prices anyway.

Free is nice, but excluding the IPhone, which I too have not yet 
tackled, the free screen readers have a tendency to be minimal at 
best.

As far as phones go, I still miss my old Nokia 6620, which died about 
3 years ago.

It had better audio on both the receiving and transmitting end than I 
have heard from any other phone made in the past 3 years. Most of them 
make you sound like you are under water. The manufacturers don't 
really care about audio. Their priorities are faster data, more video 
features, some useful, and fartoo many useless apps, etc., because 
that is what is driving the sale of moble phones these days.

K5XU

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Pratik Patel
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Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 8:52 AM
Subject: [leadership] Nokia releases a new free screen reader


Colleagues,

Nokia has just announced a free screen reader for some of its phones 
at the
annual Nokia World conference. It is based on Mobile Speak on the 
Simbian
platform. Here is an article that discusses it. At this point, we are 
not
certain how feature rich the  screen reader is. If any of you consider
purchasing one of the phones supported by the screen reader and will 
be
trying this app, please let us know how it works.

http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/10/27/nokia-rolls-out-new-screen-reader/

Regards,

Pratik


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