Category: accessible Devices
Survey to Influence Wireless Phone Design, Services
AAPD encourages you to take an online survey that could help influence the design and development of more accessible and usable wireless phones and services. It is sponsored by the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Wireless Technology, "Wireless RERC", at Georgia Tech University. This 10-minute online accessible survey is on the Internet at http://www.wirelessrerc.gatech.edu/survey/coverletter_p2.html
It's also available as hard copy or can be completed over the phone by
contacting:
Lynne Broderick, 2020 Peachtree Road, NW, Atlanta, GA 30309
Voice: (404) 367-1348; Toll-free: (800) 582-6360
Email: wirelessrerc@shepherd.org or
lynne_broderick@shepherd.org
You can also sign up for their Consumer Advisory Network (CAN) for information and resources about accessibility of wireless devices.
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The Wireless RERC is funded by the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research to "promote equitable access to and use of wireless technologies by people with disabilities and encourage adoption of Universal Design in future generations of wireless devices and applications."
Source: Wireless RERC
Sounds like a very good resource. I'll have to check it out.
Thanks.
Bob
Hopefully someone is starting to pay attention to the needs of blind people when designing these devices.
yeah they did on the motorola razr it can speak the contacts in your contacts list and it say the numbers when you press them (were not that stupid!!). and when you call it say, calling. also it says ending call when you hang up.
Tristan
Moto Q with Mobile Speak Smartphone works fine for me...fully accessible.