You couldn't make this up: Man with no eyes was driving car

[Churchill]

Have you seen the price of a braille printer. Wanted to get the sprog one but they are hugely expensive - for something which is just a heavy duty dot matrix printer.

Cr@p Braille Printer only $1,895.00

Tony, are any of your mates Freemasons? Most Lodges have a local charity fund for things like this.

[BoredBloke]

Nope - don't know any freemasons.

I can't understand why they are so expensive. I'm guessing it is the lack of economies of scale. At the end of the day it is a printer which punches up to 6 dots into a bit of card. I must admit it is holding him back now. If he finds anything on the internet he had to type it out using his perkins brailler because writing is not an option and neither are any of the printers.

Everything for the visually impaired is expensive when it comes to IT. The screen reader he uses (Jaws for windows) retails at £800. They do a time limited demo copy which means the PC has to be rebooted every 40 mins. I tried getting a cracked copy off emule, but the crack screws it up completely.

[Churchill]

Nope - don't know any freemasons.

I can't understand why they are so expensive. I'm guessing it is the lack of economies of scale. At the end of the day it is a printer which punches up to 6 dots into a bit of card. I must admit it is holding him back now. If he finds anything on the internet he had to type it out using his perkins brailler because writing is not an option and neither are any of the printers.

Everything for the visually impaired is expensive when it comes to IT. The screen reader he uses (Jaws for windows) retails at £800. They do a time limited demo copy which means the PC has to be rebooted every 40 mins. I tried getting a cracked copy off emule, but the crack screws it up completely.

Tony, I'm back up North at the weekend, I'll have a chat with a few of my 'friends' and get some contact details. I'll PM you with the info.

[BoredBloke]

Cheers

[Jesus]

You tight wad Tony

[BoredBloke]

Its a northern thing Jebus!

We're all like that up here.

[Jesus]

I thought is was those Yorkshire types who would peel an orange in their pockets

[BoredBloke]

I lived in Yorkshire for a while. I guess I picked up a few of the local traditions. Surely your dad could have told you that.

[mcquiggd]

Braille TV... with all those saturday morning dolly birds on the telly you'd feel a right tit....

[DaveB]

Tony, have a word with your local Lions group as well. They also provide charitable funds for cases like this and blindness and visual impairment are one of their core areas.

Rotary Club also do much the same thing.