[access-uk] Re: Cobolt compass, beware

  • From: "ANDY COLLINS" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:05:46 +0100

Thanks Mo - I'll take a look -

Andy
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mobeen Iqbal 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 2:22 AM
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: Cobolt compass, beware


  I bought this one a while ago, link follows. Its stilish, talks and does what 
i need it to do. its not tacky either, £20 including delivery!

  
http://www.worthydeal.co.uk/engine/shop/product/CV_CVPA-OG08/Handheld+Talking+Compass

  all the best,

  Mo.


  On 16/07/2012 00:49, Angel wrote: 
    I don't know, for the life of me, why designers for blind products think we 
blind have no sense of style.  It seems they deliberately take double advantage 
of us.  As they know we are a small market, wanting access, as would anyone.  
So they feel as we haven't a choice they can get away with selling to us ugly 
products.  If they thought of us as they think of themselves, they would 
realize if they wouldn't want to be seen with an ugly piece of equipment, 
neither would we. 
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: ANDY COLLINS 
      To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 5:41 PM
      Subject: [access-uk] Cobolt compass, beware


      Hi all -

      Another waste of dosh! I think I paid about £35 for this, and it's a load 
of rubbish. My experience with 
      it, found it to be both inaccurate and unpredictable. 

      Like many things produce for blind people, it is also very ugly, and 
cheap looking/feeling.

      I'm not just banging the old drum of complaint against equipment produced 
for the blind. In fact, it saddens me to find yet again the same experience, of 
over-priced [but I do understand the niche market equals fewer sales argument] 
ugly build, hardly fit for purpose, assistive equipment.

        I always try to buy where I can, mainstream equipment, and figure out 
how to get the best from it, but sometimes, mainstream can be too 
non-accessible, and I am forced to go to the so-called specialists. It truly 
gives me no pleasure in bringing to the attention of the list this poor piece 
of specialist equipment, but I think we need to keep shouting for equality in 
product performance, reliability, and aesthetic appeal. I don't want big clunky 
stuff in my pockets, or around my house, just because it can talk, or give me 
some other kind of additional feedback. As I have said before on this list, the 
PTR1 was the most over-priced, mal-functioning, hugely ugly piece of junk, I've 
ever wasted 600 quid on. Sadly, I've wasted 35 on a useless compass, that 
thinks North is wherever it fancies, on any given day -

      Andy

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