NEW SOFTWARE HELPS VISUALLY IMPAIRED USE PHONE.(Product Announcement)

Adaptive Innovations, Toronto, a division of Trango Software Corporation, a product developer and provider of call center solutions, has unveiled BrailleStream-LCD 1.1, the first assistive technology solution for offices using digital business telephones that present call data in an LCD window of the telephone set.

BrailleStream-LCD has been designed to assist the visually impaired by processing the data in the LCD window and providing the information directly to a voice synthesizer or Braille display by tightly integrating with JAWS for Windows (JFW) screen reader software by Henter-Joyce, a division of Freedom Scientific.

For low-vision individuals, a screen magnification program like MAGic Screen Magnification Software, also by Henter-Joyce, can be used to provide the necessary information in large format text.

BrailleStream-LCD offers businesses the ability to hire the visually impaired for positions where receiving data from high tech digital telephones is a prerequisite of the job, as well as a cost-effective means of becoming both the FCC 508 and ADA compliant.

Some facts about BrailleStream-LCD

BrailleStream-LCD was developed in response to the large number of requests we have received from individuals and companies for a product that would provide information from the LCD display on a digital business telephone to blind and visually impaired employees in a useable form. BrailleStream-LCD was developed to integrate with JAWS for Windows (JFW) by Henter-Joyce and create new employment opportunities for the vision impaired that are dependent on using today's high technology digital telephones that have visual display LCD windows.

BrailleStream-LCD may also be used with screen magnification software to provide the information to persons with low vision. Unlike optical solutions that require adding unrelated technology into the mix, BrailleStream-LCD integrates with the actual telephone technology and offers a transparent and seamless method of providing the data shown in the telephone LCD display to a blind or visually impaired individual.

In addition BrailleStream-LCD will provide the needed information while allowing the individual to continue working in any computer application with virtually no impact on productivity. BrailleStream-LCD is compatible with most mainstream telephone sets found in business today, including Nortel, Siemens, Lucent, NEC, Inter-Tel, Norstar etc. BrailleStream-LCD creates FCC 508 and ADA compliance in the workplace.

For more information, visit http://www.adaptiveinno.com or call (905)737-6388 ext. 1139.

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