[senit] Danas banned in Europe

Judith

i think the issue is that there are safety features that do not meet European standards and the manufacturer does not want to spend cash on an upgrade.

it is not illegal to buy... distributors cannot sell..
dave

-----Original Message-----
From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk]On Behalf Of Judith Stansfield
Sent: 09 November 2007 19:49
To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk.; SENIT (SENIT)
Subject: [senit] Danas banned in Europe

I don't know whether you are aware that it is now illegal to buy an
Alphsmart Dana in the UK, as all the old stock has been sold. Someone in
the EC in its PC-dom has decided that part of the production process
does not measure up, so their sale is banned in  Europe - even though
they are still OK to be sold in North America and most other parts of
the world, it is not worth Alphasmarts while to change their production
run for one area. The Dana, especially with the Don Johnston soundcard
adaptation and inclusion of Write Outloud provided a really useful,
robust, portable writing aid that provided a talking wordprocessor, that
a dyslexic child could easily carry around school to use.  It is little
short of a scandal, let alone an infringement of personal choice, that
our children with SEN  are to be denied their use .
In Dyslexia Awareness Week, I shall be using www.writetothem.com to
raise this with my MP and MEP and hope that lots of you will spend a few
minutes to do this as well
Cheers
Judith
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