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What People Say About the PAC Mate Omni

“I am a thirty-two-year-old teacher of the visually impaired and have been blind, but with a degree of usable vision, since birth," writes Jaimie from Gaffney of South Carolina. "The PAC Mate is one of the best accessibility products that I have ever used! I had heard about it for years, but it wasn't until after my vision began to further weaken, necessitating the need for full time Braille use and speech output, that I knew that I wanted to delve into the world of notetakers. I asked many of my blind co-workers for their advice or opinions, and the PAC Mate was their overwhelming recomendation. The decision to get it has been one of the best that I could have ever made! I was able to actually begin to use it straight out of the box, with no formal training. The very next day, I started to use it to take notes in my master's degree classes.

“I am still learning many of the ins and outs of the machine, but I can already tell that it will open many doors for me. I can't wait to access e-books that I can now obtain instantly from a variety of sources through the JAWS speech output and the twenty-cell Braille display. The Pac Mate puts all the information you need to get through your day in one easy-to-use package that can go anywhere. I highly reccommend it to any professional who is thinking about purchasing a notetaker or a laptop. If you are already computer literate, you will have no trouble transitioning to the PAC Mate. The PAC Mate has everything you need and so much more! It definitely is the answer to the same old laptop!"

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A New Way to Access Bookshare.org Books

Due to the way Bookshare.org books are now searched, downloaded, and formatted, the Bookshare Unpack Utility for PAC Mate is no longer applicable. Read about the new way to unzip books with Total Commander.

Kolby Garrison's PAC Mate is as essential to her teenage life as a phone.

Teachers Get Visual Access to Blind Students' Work on the PAC Mate

Now available for the PAC Mate Omni

Sighted teachers and their students who use PAC Mate can truly work together in the classroom. With the PMViewer, it's easy for sighted teachers and others using a computer with a monitor to review a blind student's work on the PAC Mate. Find out more and download the FREE PMViewer.

"Before PAC Mate, I was a C student. Now I make A grades!"
Alex Follo talks about using his PAC Mate in the classroom ...

PAC Mate Omni Training in DAISY Text and Audio Format Now Available

The first new DAISY training books for the PAC Mate Omni are now available for download. These DAISY books are available in both text and narrated audio format. More PAC Mate DAISY training books will follow in the coming months.

In addition, for those who just want to hear the audio, the MP3 files are being made available separately from the DAISY books. Visit the PAC Mate training downloads section of the training downloads page to find these and other great training files.

Blind Students Benefit from reading RFB&D AudioPlus® Books with the PAC Mate.

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Teachers' Guide to the PAC Mate 4.1 or earlier*:

Read the guide online

Download the guide in CD files (166 MB) This download is made up of individual HTML and image files from the Teachers Guide CD. They will automatically create a folder in your C drive named PM_QXBX_TeacherGuides and will unzip into that folder. You can use this folder to easily create your own CD.

*To be released Teachers Guide to the PAC Mate Omni

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