Accessibility.net was founded by Patrick J.
Fischer in Martin City, Missouri in 1997 as F1-Key, LLC which held a
Missouri Rehabilitation Services for the blind contract. The company was an authorized
distributor VAR - Value Added Reseller for the leading manufacturers of
technology which help persons who are blind and visually impaired from
1995 to 2014.
Prior to that Patrick founded Share Technology
in 1988 in Kansas City, Missouri which was a company that volunteered
and also charged for his services as a technician.
Patrick discovered in the early 90’s that the technology for
persons with disabilities was ahead of the curve as speech synthesis,
text to speech, scan and read, voice recognition, to name a few, were
not used in the mainstream. Persons with disabilities and the assistive
technology they used, were early adopters to what we use on tablets and
smartphones today.
In 1993 with the help of the director (Dave
Vogel) of RSB -
Missouri Rehabilitation Service for the Blind, Patrick created the
Laptop Reader for the Blind. The Laptop Reader for the Blind used a CompuAdd
laptop running Microsoft DOS and Windows 3.11, along with an Artic
transport hardware synthesizer and a copy of Artic Win Vision screen
reader. Here are two
pictures from 1993 of this first Laptop Reader for the Blind:

In 1999 he moved its office to Omaha, Nebraska
and working out of an apartment grew sales in the states of Nebraska,
Iowa, Missouri and Kansas while holding a Rehab Engineering contract in
Missouri. In 2002 Patrick opened his first showroom featuring low vision
products in Omaha at 108th and Maple, and in 2003 to a larger showroom
at 120th and Center called the Low Vision Mart. In 2006 a bigger store
was opened in Omaha at 111th and Fort Street which later had the name
Nebraska Low Vision on the building. A second store was opened in
Urbandale, Iowa in 2008 and eventually carried the name Iowa Low Vision.
Today,
Nebraska Low Vision is an on-line store for shopping and providing
life-time support on all the products it sells.

Click on link
below to check out Nebraska Low Vision's
website:
www.NebraskaLowVision.com
Today, Iowa
Low Vision is an on-line store for shopping and providing life-time
support on all the products it sells.

Click on link
below to check out Iowa Low Vision's
website:
www.IowaLowVision.com
Nebraska and Iowa Low Vision's service
department serves the State of Nebraska and Iowa and provides in-home
service providing in-warranty, and out of warranty repairs for
customers. Nebraska Low Vision works on most CCTV's to repair, upgrade
or replace defective units as needed.
Manufacturers Serviced:
Clarity
Enhanced Vision
Freedom Scientific
HIMS
Humanware
Magnisight
Optelec
Telesensory
Nebraska and Iowa Low Vision works on products
that were purchased from other companies. so when you don't get the
support you deserve, call us so we may help you.
Today Patrick manages Nebraska Low Vision and
Iowa Low Vision and works for the greatest company in
America, NanoPac, Inc. which is 32 years old! Nanopac understands the
importance of technology to help persons blind and visually impaired.
NanoPac provides the best customer service and support for every product
sold. We provide products and services in 8 states; Oklahoma, Arkansas,
New Mexico, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado. We sell
direct and also work with eye doctors that want to distribute the
products we sell. If you are in one of these states please call us at
800-580-6086 so that we may help you.
Are you trying to help someone with low vision that lives somewhere else
in the United States? To provide a solution to help anybody living in
the United States I created the Low Vision US List. It only costs $.99
per state
to get a list of the best local resources for any State in the United
States. The Low Vision US List covers every state including Guam, Puerto
Rico and the Virgin Islands. Purchase this at the Low Vision US website:
www.LowVisionRehab.com
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