Signed, Sealed, Delivered

We spent the last morning of the conference looking around the exhibition halls having a bit more of a chat with Larry Skutchan at the APH booth (stand in UK English!) and visiting Sendero, GW Micro (Window-Eyes screenreader and Braillesense notetaker family), BookShare (electronic text downloads for reading material) and Enabling Technologies (Braille embossers) amongst others. At a little after noon a bit of a ripple went around the halls with the news that Stevie Wonder had arrived. Recently he has campaigned to encourage developers of mainstream technology to include accessibility features at concept thereby avoiding costly add on adaptations having to be made at a later stage. Stevie has attended the CSUN Conference in previous years and this time was here to look at products for himself. We didn't actually get to speak to him but Gail got a photograph of him being shown some equipment. He took time out to chat and be photographed with a group of visually impaired high school kids much to their delight.