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HumanWare Launches the BrailleNote Apex – Shipping December 1st, 2009

Longueuil, November 11, 2009 — HumanWare has launched the BrailleNote Apex, the thinnest and lightest notetaker especially for professionals and students who are blind.

Powerful and sleek at just 2 cm (0.78″) thick and weighing only 812 grams (1.8 lbs), the BrailleNote Apex is designed for portability and functionality. Intelligent ergonomics have always been the benchmark of HumanWare products, and the BrailleNote Apex performs with comfort and agility. A comfortable full-size Braille keyboard makes notetaking quick and easy, while HumanWare’s signature thumb keys make extensive reading effortless.

“As a proud supporter of Braille literacy, HumanWare is committed to developing products that help blind people to fully participate in the quickly evolving, digital world around them. Because we believe that communication is the key to success, we strive to put every opportunity in the hands of our customers with Braille products that meet their needs every day. The BrailleNote Apex puts the power of digital communication at everyone’s fingertips,” says Gilles Pepin, CEO of HumanWare.

Added horsepower and multiple storage options define the BrailleNote Apex’s productivity with its 8 GB of internal memory and support for high capacity SDHC cards, along with 4 high-speed USB 2.0 ports, built-in Wi-Fi, Ethernet and Bluetooth.

The advanced technology is driven by the new Windows CE 6.0 operating system which enables the expansion of KeySoft, a comprehensive, user-friendly suite of productivity applications with feature-rich content that is 100% accessible. This powerful software combination will facilitate future enhancements and ongoing improvements in response to user requests.

Almost ten years after the introduction of the BrailleNote, the revolutionary BrailleNote Apex is the ninth notetaking device in a line of products that has been helping people who are blind to be a vital part of the global information age since 2000.

For the latest news and information about BrailleNote products, subscribe to the BrailleNote Newswire at www.humanware.com. And for more details about the BrailleNote Apex, visit www.humanware.com/apex.

Hear about the Apex in the next couple of days:
November 13th

ACB Radio, an internet radio station sponsored by the American Council of the Blind, will air a 2-hour live special program featuring Matthew Janasauskas, HumanWare’s Director of Technical Support on Friday, November 13

Time: 9:00 PM. EST. Listeners will have an opportunity to call and ask individual questions regarding the BrailleNote Apex. To listen, please visit http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream

November 16th

Accessible World Tek Talk will presents the Apex Braillenote, November 16, 2009
Time: 5:00 PM PST, 6:00 PM MST, 7:00 PM CST, and 8:00 PM EST
and elsewhere in the world Tuesday 1:00 GMT

Select The Pat Price Tek Talk Training Room at: http://www.accessibleworld.org
Enter your first and last names on the sign-in screen.

November 24th

HumanWare has scheduled an Apex introduction webinar on Tuesday, November 24th

Time: 7 PM. EST on http://accessibleevent.com/

For more information about these or other HumanWare products, please contact us:

Canada
call toll free: 1-888-723-7273
Email: ca.info@humanware.com

UK/Europe
Tel: +44 1933 415 800
Email: eu.info@humanware.com

Australia/Asia
Tel: +61 2 9686 2600
Email: au.sales@humanware.com

U.S.A
call toll free 1-800-722-3393 or (925) 680-7100
Email: us.info@humanware.com