Merry Christmas!

Hi to all

Some people may receive this message more than once as you may be on several of our Email lists, for which I apologise.

I am writing this message on the last day of business for us in 2021. I'm glad to say we've had another very good year, thanks largely to the support of companies and organisations who have purchased our scripting and consultancy services, together with blind people who have purchased many of our products.

From a product perspective, we've had many good things to celebrate. Every product has had major updates. Of particular note would be the StationPlaylist scripts for JAWS, which this year have received an enormous number of new features and improvements which benefit particularly seasoned broadcasters. However we must not forget J-Say, the Zoom scripts and especially Leasey, all of which have received many new features.

One of the biggest innovations for us this year has been the development of a set of JAWS scripts and a nine hour training course in the use of Microsoft Teams. Many people have taken advantage of both of these, which has extended to large government departments and other organisations worldwide.

We also this year introduced Elegance for ElBraille, allowing a person to control the ElBraille device in a way which means they do not need to remember often complex key sequences to work with the device.

The audio tutorial on the REAPER Digital Audio Workstation was completely re-recorded, this time with an accompanying text transcript of all the lessons. All our training courses now come with text transcripts as standard. I would like to think that is a very welcome improvement.

And finally in terms of training courses, our SenseAbility course to teach people how to use the new BrailleSense 6 is now well under way and will be concluded in early 2022. Students are already learning a lot about this device.

And please remember, these are just the smaller things which have happened. While all this has taken place, training, technical support, product promotion, delivering presentations and other work still goes on to keep the company alive.

Moving forward, in terms of product development, updates to Leasey and J-Say are first on the agenda for 2022, so watch this space for good things to come.

From Hartgen Consultancy, we would like to wish all of you the very best for Christmas and have a wonderful new year. Thank you for your support during 2021!