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Dolphin offers free software with the purchase of mobile Dolphin PenHi, Starting this month, Dolphin Computer Access will be launching a special offer to its American customers giving a free access software CD with every Dolphin Pen purchased. Visually impaired computer users now have the freedom to take their Dolphin Pen and plug into any PC to make it accessible while installing the free software CD on the users main PC. Users have a choice of Dolphin’s screen reader, magnification software, or the world’s only combined full screen reader/magnifier. The following press release provides details on the offer and a personal account of how the Dolphin Pen can affect lives. If you would like to find out more, visit www.YourDolphin.com/usa, or please feel free to give me a call. Kind regards, Van Credle Marketing Manager Dolphin Computer Access Inc. Cell: (609) 213 2174 www.YourDolphin.com Dolphin Computer Access Inc. Press release – March 19, 2007 Visually impaired PC users enjoy greater mobility with a Dolphin Pen Great offer – Dolphin Pen now comes with a free CD license and top-rated synthesized voices Innovative software developers, Dolphin Computer Access, have announced a great special offer available to purchasers of the Dolphin Pen, the lightweight thumb drive that makes it easy for visually impaired computer users to use their full magnification software, screen reader or Braille software on a PC wherever they are. Customers simply choose the Dolphin software they want on the Pen to suit their sight loss, and they get the CD license free for use on their usual PC. What’s more, the Pen and CD now come with the top-rated Eloquence synthesizer (US and Spanish versions). Mobility and a favorite voice are all built into the same package. The Dolphin Pen offers the same levels of independence to visually impaired persons as fellow Americans who have to hot-desk at work, school or college. This is a major step forward for people with disabilities when research points to the average person migrating around several hundred computers during their lifespan. Moving between PCs can offer real accessibility challenges if essential access software isn’t readily available. The solution lies with the Dolphin Pen, the liberating thumb drive that allows visually impaired users to carry in their pocket their choice of Dolphin software with their personal settings intact for use on a PC anywhere. To receive the CD license free with their new Pen, which plugs into any USB port on a PC, Dolphin’s American customers can choose from: Dolphin Supernova Supernova offers magnification, speech and Braille support, giving people with visual impairment the freedom to access Windows in the way that suits them best. Dolphin Lunar For partially sighted computer users who find themselves straining to read the screen, whether it is text, graphics, toolbars, icons or emails, Lunar can offer the ideal magnification solution. Dolphin LunarPlus Offering all the benefits of a screen magnifier, LunarPlus also offers added speech output to provide extra support for partially sighted computer users. Dolphin Hal Developed for blind computer users, Hal is an Internet-friendly screen reader that works by reading the screen interactively and communicating through a speech synthesiser or a refreshable Braille display. The free CD license offer is Dolphin Computer Access’s way of celebrating the Dolphin Pen’s first birthday and the Pen is now internationally recognized as the market leading USB access software device. Dolphin Computer Access was the first company to offer a complete range of access software in this way, and its mobility solution remains the benchmark by which all other products are measured. Freedom to work from anywhere: David Padmore’s story David Padmore, a visually impaired Dolphin customer, has experienced new levels of independence and freedom, thanks to Dolphin Computer Access and its innovative Dolphin Pen access software. David says: “I am a regular user of Supernova and Hal, as I find these products are much more user friendly than other access software.” When David started to go to internet cafés and local libraries with his circle of friends, he found that a lot of computer systems were not set up to be user friendly for visually impaired people. “Sometimes all you had was one computer in a library or internet café configured for visually impaired people and this was usually set up at the back away from everyone else, which made me feel very isolated,” said David. “If I asked to have a second computer set up (if the only one they had was in use), in many cases the staff were unable to help with the request. As you can imagine this didn’t help my confidence or self esteem.” When the Dolphin Pen was released, David invested in the Supernova Pen. Now he was able to use any compatible computer anywhere with his personalized settings all on the pen, ready to plug into a USB port on any laptop or PC. “I loved the fact I could carry the pen in my pocket and it was there to use whenever I needed it,” said David. “I no longer felt excluded or relegated to the back of libraries and internet cafés and I found my social life benefited as a result. I even met my girlfriend while in an internet café using the Dolphin Pen on one of the PCs!” David has an avid interest in computers and the internet but found that he couldn’t find suitable work in this field that paid sufficiently, so he decided to set up as a freelance web designer specializing in accessibility issues. Now thanks to the Supernova Pen, David can attend meetings and work with potential clients, on their premises, using their equipment and no longer needs to carry around his own laptop and other personal equipment. David said: “I’m no longer stuck in my house day after day; I’m out meeting new people and am even making enough money to live on as a freelancer. It’s definitely one of the best purchases I have ever made.” ENDS For more information, contact Van Credle on 609-213-2174. Notes to editors 1. About the Dolphin Pen special offer All Dolphin software is risk-free, as it comes with a peace of mind 30-day money-back guarantee. Orders for the Dolphin Pen with a free CD license can be placed with your local Dolphin dealer. The special offer expires on September 30th, 2007. For more information regarding this offer, visit www.yourdolphin.com/usa. Full details on Dolphin Computer Access’s complete range of products can be found at www.yourdolphin.com. 2. About Dolphin Computer Access Dolphin Computer Access is one of the largest companies in the computer access industry, with over 60 employees in offices in the USA, UK and Sweden and dealers in over 30 countries worldwide. The company offers a complete range of software solutions, including screen readers, screen magnifiers, text scanners and readers, Braille translators, educational software to help with reading and writing, speech synthesizers and DAISY talking book software. More information about Dolphin and its assistive technology and altformat products is available at: www.yourdolphin.com. |