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End Over Pricing Of Software And Technology For The Blind
This petition was published by Daniel McGrath on Jun 15, 2009
We the undersigned, feel that the software and technology designed and produced by specialist companies to improve the lives of visually impaired people is ridiculously overpriced.
We also feel that not enough is being done by the producers of mainstream software and technology to make their products accessible to us.
We are told that prices are so high because we are a limited market, and while we acknowledge there is some truth in this, we feel that if prices were lowered, many more people would purchase many more of their products, and so their market would increase.
We feel ourselves held to ransom by the very people who are supposed to be helping us, as we have nowhere else to go for this software and technology, which is essential if we are to maintain a good quality of life.
We wish to see more mainstream companies such as Microsoft make their software accessible, therefore relieving us of the need to purchase expensive specialist software. And we would like to see the price of accessible technology such as Braille displays and accessible PDAs greatly reduced, in order to allow the majority of visually impaired people to take advantage of what today's technology has to offer, instead of just the lucky few.
We feel that these measures would benefit all concerned, as reduced prices would greatly increase the market for these products since many more people would be able to afford them. And this in turn would open up the wider world of work and pleasure to many hundreds of people around the world.
We also feel that not enough is being done by the producers of mainstream software and technology to make their products accessible to us.
We are told that prices are so high because we are a limited market, and while we acknowledge there is some truth in this, we feel that if prices were lowered, many more people would purchase many more of their products, and so their market would increase.
We feel ourselves held to ransom by the very people who are supposed to be helping us, as we have nowhere else to go for this software and technology, which is essential if we are to maintain a good quality of life.
We wish to see more mainstream companies such as Microsoft make their software accessible, therefore relieving us of the need to purchase expensive specialist software. And we would like to see the price of accessible technology such as Braille displays and accessible PDAs greatly reduced, in order to allow the majority of visually impaired people to take advantage of what today's technology has to offer, instead of just the lucky few.
We feel that these measures would benefit all concerned, as reduced prices would greatly increase the market for these products since many more people would be able to afford them. And this in turn would open up the wider world of work and pleasure to many hundreds of people around the world.
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