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CIDney Model 9500CW with Accessibility Features
Please note that Full Life Products strongly recommends this Model 9500CW for those with visual disabilities. This model highlights a feature that works with call waiting.
The new accessibility features are as follows:
a) Accessibility "Quick Setup" Feature. Users can quickly enable the group of accessibility, audible message waiting, and audible call waiting features by pressing one button. The 9500CW with Accessibilities Features will then automatically calibrate all of the machines internal settings to the most convenient for those with disabilities.
b) After the "Quick Setup" accessibility feature is activated, all of the machines Call Waiting settings will be preset to those that research has revealed to be the most desired by those with disabilities. The settings can be further customized if desired.
c) When the accessibility feature is enabled, CIDney Model 9500CW audibly indicates the selected mode by announcing the mode number over the speaker. CIDney Model 9500CW will also announce selections made during "enter number" and "outgoing message" modes.
d) When the accessibility feature is enabled, the "Audible and Visual Message Waiting Indicator" is activated. CIDney Model 9500CW plays a beep once every minute (and visually blinks, "messages") when there is a message waiting on the customers local phone services message answering system. (Please note that this feature needs the support of specific telephone services from the local telephone company. It is compatible with FSK VMWI data sent the SMDF and MMDF formats associated and not-associated
Other Features of the Model 9500CW with Accessibility Features Include:
1) This model will announce your call waiting calls name or number right over the telephone after you hear the call waiting beep. For example, beep "It's Mom calling". Then you can decide whether or not you want to interrupt your current call to answer the incoming call. Neither of the other parties know that you have heard the name or number in your ear.
Special Note: To utilize the model 9500CW's call waiting feature your local telephone company must have a service available to you that is called "Caller I D on call waiting" or is sometimes called " Call waiting deluxe". Don't order the 9500CW without making sure that this service is available.
2) This model announces callers name or number over its built in speaker or your cordless phone. Imagine knowing whose calling before you answer, even in the backyard.
3) You can record with your own voice up to twenty callers to be announced by name. For example "It's Mom calling" or "Fred". You can assign a recorded name to more than one number.
4) You can record up to two personal out going messages. The integrated message center leaves messages for specific callers.
5) CIDney Model 9500CW stores sixty four calls in log.
6) CIDney Model 9500CW visually displays name, number, date and time of call.
7) CIDney Model 9500CW installs in seconds. A telephone cord and A/C adapter are furnished. You never need batteries.
8) CIDney Model 9500CW retains all information even during a power outage.
9) CIDney Model 9500CW is Bilingual, English, Spanish.
10) It is desk or wall mountable.
11) It has a limited one year warranty.
12) An owners manual on audio tape is available for two dollars with an order of a Model 9500CW.
Computer Curriculum Sought
Happy St. Patty's Day to All!
One of our school districts in Maryland would like to know if any one is aware of a "computer curiculum for transistioning-age students with developmental disabilities." They would like to add training in basic computer skills to their employment-readiness activities. They are also interested in hearing of the kinds of job placements that may be available for such students (example using bar code readers to track packages, complete inventories, etc.)
For those of you who want Special Ed info, you may want to sign up for the listserv of the Special-Ed-Advocate by sending an e-mail to majordomo@wrightslaw.com and writing "subscribe special-ed-advocate" in the Message area (without the quotation marks). This listserv is composed of parents, attorneys, and other advocates for special education.
You may also wish to review their website--it's new! See http://www.wrightslaw.com
Many thanks for your assistance,
Susan Garber
Western Maryland TAP
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As a developer and manufacturer of technology I have enjoyed being part of this list for quite a while now, and would like to offer a challenge to everyone on the list. Perhaps this should be a challenge for AER in general.I'd like to know if it is possible to define a list of what products and technologies, you as practitioners in the field want. Yes, a wish list!
And while in a brainstorming mode, are there general directions or "way out" ideas people have about what is needed.
The 3 possible classes that these ideas may fall in are;
1. Day to day items, possibly called "low-tech" items that are not there now but are needed.
2. Electronic or computer based products
3. The "what if" products that seem more like science fantasy than something that will ever become real.
If it is possible to develop such a list it would serve many purposes, not least of which is to provide direction and meaning to the millions of dollars that is being spent on research and development projects for technology for vision impairment around the world.
Any ideas?
Tim
Quantum Technology
P.O. Box 390
Rydalmere NSW 2116
Australia
tel: +61 2 9684 2077
fax: +61 2 9684 4717
email: quant@quantech.com.au
WEB: http://www.quantech.com.au
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The COSMIC Videophone can be used with either a standard television set (with A/V jacks) or a computer monitor. The system requires only one ISDN telephone line and is not subject to the inconsistency of the Public Internet. The COSMIC Videophone is more readily installed than a VCR unit. All necessary connecting cables are included with the base unit. This lightweight unit weighs contains an integral camera, which can be swiveled and focused for maximum flexibility. The COSMIC Videophone is priced at $2,195, thousands less than its competition, which makes it ideal for the home and/or small office.
The COSMIC Videophone is controlled by a very simple menu system. The menu system is driven from the standard telephone keypad. The menus are easily navigated using the "#" key for menu entry and the "8" key to exit. The menus command the picture in picture features; video input selection, picture transmission quality and speed among other features.
The COSMIC Videophone base unit allows for two additional video inputs (such as a document display unit, VCR, remote camera, computer screen and more).
The COSMIC Videophone can be used to enable face to face meetings with family and friends who may be living in other cities. Grandparents can share the first steps of the grandchildren, as they happen. Business people can see their families while out of town. Students, living away from home, can share their experiences with a simple COSMIC Videophone call. The COSMIC Videophone truly allows us to say "How nice to see you" or "Let me show you something".
Business organizations can use the COSMIC Videophone to reduce travel costs and time. For example, the insurance industry can use the COSMIC Videophone to review, by telephone, an automobile accident claim in real time with the repair facility, including video.
The COSMIC Videophone also has significant applications in the Security industry. Integration of motion sensitive cameras can place a call to a remote security-monitoring facility, reducing the need for on-site personnel. Video and audio communication is possible directly with the intruders, if desired. The camera operates in real-time, eliminating the troublesome "painting" feature of most security systems.
There are many other uses for the COSMIC Videophone. We limit ourselves only by our imagination. Please review the attached information and e-mail us your questions and/or comments. Please visit us at www.cosmicvideo.com.
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