Openmoko for blind users?

[Christ van Willegen]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Sam Kuper <sam.kuper at uclmail.net> wrote:
> 2009/3/31 Crane, Matthew <mcrane03 at harris.com>
>>
>> Seems to me OM would be a good platform to quickly implement something
>> like this on a working phone.
>>
>> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127015.700-vibrating-touch-scree
>> n-puts-braille-at-the-fingertips.html
>
> That's a really nice start to making touchscreen devices friendlier for
> blind users. It'd be great for this to be ported to OpenMoko!

One of the more obvious problems, and it shows in the article, is that
Braille is 2 dimensional, and the pulses are only one-dimensional.

Perhaps having an interface with morse code could help here.

Ofcourse, you can do both the '1-dimensional braille' and morse and
let the user select. But 1 character in 1.25 seconds sounds like a
long time! Morse is (can be) much quicker than that.

Christ van Willegen
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