2007 National Access Awareness Week on VoicePrint

TORONTO - "I had a wife, four kids and a mortgage," says Dr. Stephen Timmer when asked what inspired him to create his own software designed specifically for people with disabilities. "I didn't have a choice. "I lost my ability to see, but I didn't lose my ability to learn," says the co-founder of Premier Assistive Technology, in a press release from VoicePrint Canada. Since losing his sight to macular degeneration, Timmer and his company have created such software as: a hands-free dictionary, a "talking" word processor and a text-to-audio converter. Timmer is among VoicePrint's line-up of guests for a...