Code Factory, HumanWare
Jointly Demonstrate Novel Solutions at CSUN 2007
For immediate release: Friday, 23 March
2007
Los Angeles, California – HumanWare, the global
leader in assistive technologies for vision, and Code
Factory, a leader in computer software for blind users,
are jointly demonstrating their products working together
at the California State University Northridge (CSUN)
Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference
2007.
The two companies are showing Code Factory’s Mobile
Speak Pocket, to which HumanWare has the exclusive English-language
license, running on a personal digital assistant (PDA)
with a Brailliant BrailleNote display, connected via
a Bluetooth connection to HumanWare’s BrailleNote
platform.
“HumanWare is the exclusive distributor of Mobile
Speak Pocket in English-speaking countries,” said
Eduard Sánchez, Code Factory CEO. “We are
proud to see them offering innovative solutions tying
their existing product family ever more closely to Mobile
Speak Pocket.”
HumanWare is also demonstrating an upcoming version
of Mobile Speak Pocket running on a PDA. The new version
of MSP includes Braille games developed in response to
HumanWare’s Support Braille Literacy initiative.
HumanWare is holding additional sessions to demonstrate
their bundled solution of Mobile Speak Pocket and a Brailliant
Braille display, offered at competitive prices since
the launch of HumanWare’s Support Braille Literacy
effort in January.
“HumanWare is proud to be the exclusive English-language
reseller of Mobile Speak Pocket – and happy to
be getting such a good response to it from our customers
and partners,” said Richard Mander, HumanWare CEO.
Mobile Speak Pocket is a full-fledged screen reader
for blind and low vision users that provides innovative
access to mobile devices such as PDA's and mobile phones
powered by the Pocket PC and Pocket PC Phone editions
of the Windows Mobile® operating system.
HumanWare is the exclusive distributor of Mobile Speak
Pocket in English-language versions. HumanWare’s
BrailleNote family is the leading family of notetaker
devices for the blind, leading the market since its introduction
in 2001.
HumanWare will be demonstrating the current, pre-release
version of Mobile Speak Pocket, including the new Braille
learning games, as well as the currently available version
of Mobile Speak Pocket throughout CSUN and afterward.
For further information please contact:
Caroline Ragot
Marketing Coordinator
Code Factory, S.L.
Rambla Egara 148, 2-2
08221 Terrassa (Barcelona)
Tel. +34 93 733 70 66
caroline.ragot@codefactory.es
Floyd Smith
VP, Marketing and Customer Experience
HumanWare
Ph: +44 7949 818966
floyd.smith@humanware.com
About Code Factory
Code Factory is the leading provider of screen readers,
screen magnifiers, and Braille interfaces for the widest
range of mainstream mobile devices. Among our customers
are well-known companies and organizations like ONCE
and carriers like TMN, Vodafone, Redcom, SFR and many
more. Good partners help Code Factory to provide excellent
text-to-speech technology for our products and to incorporate
support for Braille devices into our software.
About HumanWare
HumanWare is the global leader in assistive technologies
for vision, including products for the blind and visually
impaired. HumanWare’s products include BrailleNote,
the leading productivity device for blind people in education,
in business and in their personal lives; the Victor Reader
product line, the world’s leading digital talking
book players; and myReader2, the new version of HumanWare’s
unique "auto-reader" for people with low vision.
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