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I worked for a company that built products for the blind. I did a quick search on the optacon, a product I did some work with, and came up with this site of a user: http://www.blindcanadians.ca/publications/cbm/6/support-opta... The company I worked for became "freedon Scientific". THis company makes a variety of enabling technology.

I work with a couple of pioneers in the industry, I would be glad to either check out your idea, or pass it on to my friends.

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Unfortunately FS have created an expensive ($1k+) piece of software that is difficult to learn. I commend the OP for having the vision to innovate in this space.

I am not real familiar with "Jaws" which is what I think you are referring too. I had worked for the company that had been called Blazie Research. Blazie made "laptops for the blind", their products used a Z80 processor and a hardware based text to speech. The premium model had a braille output that had either 20 or 40 braille cells that were driven with piezo transducers. When I started we were tasked with building the next generation model based on the StrongArm chip. It was a very cool project that was lost in a venture capital based merger.

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