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Pew Internet & American Life Project Findings

Americans living with a disability are less likely than other adults to use the internet. According to a national survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in September 2010, 54% of adults living with a disability use the internet, compared with 81% of adults who report none of the disabilities listed in the survey. Two percent of American adults say they have a disability or illness that makes it harder or impossible for them to use the internet. The survey found that about one-in-four (27%) American adults live with a disability that interferes with activities of daily living. Statistically speaking, disability is associated with being older, less educated, and living in a lower-income household. By contrast, internet use is statistically associated with being younger, college-educated, and living in a higher-income household. People living with disability, once they are online, are also less likely than other internet users to have high-speed access or wireless access. The Pew Internet Project report provides context for the continuing conversation about who does -- and does not -- use the internet in the U.S., including a proposal to extend the enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act to include websites operated by certain entities.

PLEXTALK

The PLEXTALK Pocket is a lightweight, pocket-sized, DAISY-compliant music, voice, and book player/recorder that offers revolutionary mobility and ease of use by anyone in business, education and leisure. It is the world's first true crossover media player/recorder which contains a host of applications and which also comes packed with features that support unsurpassed accessibility for people with sight problems or learning difficulties.

With the PLEXTALK Pocket in your bag or in shirt pocket, you can enjoy listening to digital talking books and play your favorite music. Dimension : 55 x 112 x 16mm or 2.2 x 4.4 x 0.6inches, weight : 110 g or 3.9 ounces only!
More useful recording features than IC recorders; just press a button to insert a heading while recording long conferences or classes, and you can playback only what you want to review by navigating by the headings. Also, the voice memo can be used for remembering telephone numbers, appointments, To Do Lists, etc.
PLEXTALK Pocket features the world?s first wireless LAN function as a dedicated DAISY digital book player. This function offers you a usage of sharing your books or files between your computer and your PLEXTALK Pocket via wireless LAN at your home or office without using a USB cable. More features by using this wireless LAN connections will be expected with further enhancements of firmware.
Choice of sound output, built-in large volume speaker or bundled stereo earphone.
You can add more capacity with a larger SD cards thus storing to carry as many books and music titles as you want. PLEXTALK Pocket supports up to 32GB SDHC.
Sleep timer function that switches off by itself automatically at the setting time.
Connect to a Windows PC*1 and the PLEXTALK Pocket becomes an external drive by using the bundled USB cables, or becomes a network shared folder via wireless LAN at your home or office. You just drag-and-drop files on your PC to PLEXTALK Pocket, without any specific folder name rules. Now you are ready to go out with your favorite DAISY books, other digital talking books, MP3or WMA*2 music, text, html, MS-Word doc, etc.
If you have our PTR1 or PTR2 products, you can copy the contents on your CD from either of them to the PLEXTALK Pocket without a PC. Just connect the devices with a USB cable, and then press ?9? key to back up the files on CD to the SD card in the PLEXTALK Pocket.
PLEXTALK Pocket plays back from major content providers in the U.S.A, Bookshare.org, Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D), Serotek SAMNET DAISY books*3. NLS contents are supported. PLEXTALK Pocket supports Audible.com audio books.
Please contact the content provider to subscribe, and ask how to download contents onto your PC.
The battery is recharged via USB. Just connect your PLEXTALK Pocket to your PC or any USB port!

For more information, please go to the PLEXTALK Website at: http://www.plextalk.com/in/index.html

Adaptive Technology

Christal Vision offers a range of screen magnification and screen reading software products to fit anyone's needs. Whether you are visually impaired, or squint at your computer screen and lean in to read the fine print, Christal Vision has a solution for you.

Video magnifiers: Increase the size of the printed page, allow visually impaired persons to participate fully in the classroom and their studies, enjoy family photos, take up old and new hobbies.
Reading appliances: Hear books and letters read aloud with easy push-button operation simply scan, play, and listen.
Screen Magnification Software: Magnify the computer screen up to 36 times; hear content read aloud; customize the monitor's view for ease of reading: add tint to the screen; set the content of the screen to appear in monochrome.
Refreshable Braille display: Use braille characters to read text output.
Screen readers: Make personal computers with Microsoft Windows accessible to blind and visually impaired users; provide users with access to the information displayed on the screen via text-to-speech or by the use of a Braille display.
Access Technology Instruction: Learn to access the internet with ease; to access Windows and open a new world; to produce and access word documents; excel in the use of Excel.

Marci Lopez, Product Specialist, Christal Vision Inc.
Cellular: (214) 732-5788
Office: (469) 522-1803 fax: (972) 236-2511
E-mail: marci.smiles@gmail.com
San Antonio Office: (800) 299-0700 Fax: (210) 662-7559