2026-09-16 21:36 UTC
@AccessOn@nfb.social Thank you for the latest ep.
I've just finished hearing the parts I wanted to listen to.
Blazie Technologies. I think this company is very innovative. They are extremely prolific in their frequency of product updates and they are trying very hard to modernise the traditional Braille notetaker experience.
Noone can fault them for that.
But they have a real problem it seems to me. They do not seem to be at all interested in what happens outside America.
Using Mastodon, I wrote to them at considerable length, setting out why it was important to have a distributor network outside America, including the United Kingdom.
As one of a large number of people who is often called upon to recommend products for the Government's Access to Work scheme for employment purposes, we need to get our hands on this product locally. We need to be assured that UK product standards are met. We need to see it at conferences and exhibitions.
We need to be assured that maintenance can be carried out in the required country.
Did I get a reply to that message? No, I didn't.
I do not know the state of play in terms of Canada and Australia for example, but I suspect it may be similar.
I fully accept you were just relaying the information given by the Vendor. But it is an important point. Products like the BrailleNote Evolve and the BrailleSense 7 are far from being perfect in terms of functionality. I know that more than anyone. But they do have local support in as many territories as possible.
I think it is time Blazie started to develop an international distributor network.
Replies (0)
No replies.