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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sales Contact:
Bryan Carver, Inside Sales Director
Media Contact:
Brad Davis
Blind/Low Vision Group
800-444-4443 or 727-803-8000
www.FreedomScientific.com
FREEDOM SCIENTIFIC
ANNOUNCES NEW DAISY READERS
FOR PAC MATE OR DESKTOP
(St. Petersburg, Florida June
29, 2004) - Freedom Scientific today announced its new FSReader applications
for reading DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) format digital
talking books on the desktop PC and on portable PAC Mate accessible Pocket
PCs. The applications work with Freedom Scientific’s JAWS screen
reader and offer full navigation of DAISY 2.0 e-books and DAISY 3.0,
the ANSI/NISO standard, like those available from Bookshare.
Using FSReader, individuals with
low vision or other print disabilities can navigate to a particular
point in a book from the table of contents or the index by browsing
headings, or by flipping pages. They can reopen books right to the
place they
left
off and set multiple bookmarks. In books containing both audio recording
and text, users can fast forward and rewind and even speed up the narrator.
They can switch between recorded audio and text with synthesized speech
or even read along with the audio using one of Freedom Scientific’s
refreshable Braille displays or MAGic screen magnification software.
FSReader is compatible with
the BX400 and QX400 series PAC Mate. Freedom Scientific will be demonstrating
FSReader at the upcoming National Federation of the Blind and American
Council of the Blind Conferences and plans to begin shipping in September.
US pricing for either the PAC Mate or Desktop version is $79.95 or $119.95
if both are purchased together.
About PAC Mate
The PAC Mate is the first
and only accessible version of Microsoft’s Pocket PC applications
for personal data assistants, or PDA’s. The PAC Mate is a handheld
computer that provides on the go access to information and computing.
The PAC Mate is based on “pocket” or “small” versions
of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office applications, such as Word and
Internet Explorer, and is designed to integrate seamlessly with a desktop
PC.
About Freedom Scientific
Freedom Scientific is the
world's leading manufacturer of assistive technology products for those
who are blind and vision impaired, and products for the special education
and learning disability markets.
Freedom Scientific, PAC Mate,
JAWS, and MAGic are registered trademarks of Freedom Scientific, Inc.
in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies
and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective
owners.
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