Hello All, firstly I'm a listener on this list not a poster. Waiting for my FreeRunner and then I'll have more relevant contributions, if any.
I'm not visually Impaired or blind but I'm very curious about them. At present on a phone there is a wee nipple, (for want of a better word) on the "5" key so that people can feel it and know where they are. (That's great but what's better to my mind is that all the Euro Bank Notes have different markers on them so that blind people know how much money they're handing over, and being handed back. Keep trying to find the markers but still can't distinguish them.) Back on point of this question. Do blind people use phones and if so how will a blind person use a phone with no keypad, (and hence the nipple)? Actually given that the person is blind you could get rid of the screen altogether? This may all seem a bit off topic but I thought that FreeRunner with the gesture stuff would be so brilliant for blind people. Started thinking that if you could tap morse on the phone and have it detected and converted into text that'd be brilliant. Perhaps Blind people have special phones? If I knew a blind person I could find out. Perhaps there's a project in taking a FreeRunner and removing the screen, (either VGA or QVGA I don't care ;-) and have really good speech recognition in it and for get the morse altogether. Could the phone read out an SMS message? what a first post! Sorry. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community