Voice synthesizer for blind and visual impaired person
Jeffrey L. Taylor
openmoko at abluz.dyndns.org
Tue Mar 27 16:44:52 CEST 2007
Quoting Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd. <b.zdanowski at autoguard.pl>:
[snip]
> Right I forgot about tactile display but plastic keys should be great. I
> think it should work because all PDA point-sticks work great. Touch-keys
> don't have to be clear... because blind person don't care about it,
> remember.
But not all of their friends are blind. Making a phone unusable by a sighted
person is as bad as making it unusable for a blind person. At least for POTS
usage. IMHO, anyone who has used a cellphone before should be able to pick up
an unfamiliar phone and answer a call and/or make a call a manually entered
number.
Ideally this would extend to deaf people too. However, I don't think texting
UI is as standardized as voice & hard/soft keys UI.
Just my $0.02USD,
Jeffrey
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