That determination is in dramatic contrast to the paternalistic treatment he received as an elementary school youngster, when he was assigned to the resource room for the blind with other blind students and told, in essence, to remain there until he could prove himself capable of achieving at the level of sighted students. I got along with all types of people in school. With my friends it got to the point that they'd forget I'm blind. Jake says his Keynote Companion is often an effective ice-breaker. My Companion gets the attention of a lot of people.
Kids like to hear it talk.
Ever since Jake began using his Keynote Companion in 1995, it has been his constant companion. Jake finds the Keynote Companion easily meets his technical expectations. You can do a lot more with it than you can with anything else, and it's extremely fast. Although Jake has a personal computer, he does much of his work on the Keynote Companion. It lets me format text, margins and type size, make choices like centering and italics, perform calculations, and insert the results into a text document.