Visually Impaired?

2008-07-11 Thread John Whitmore
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

Re: Visually Impaired?

2008-07-11 Thread Joseph Reeves
think you've got a great idea, Joseph 2008/7/11 John Whitmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

Re: Visually Impaired?

2008-07-11 Thread Steven **
] wrote: 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

Re: Visually Impaired?

2008-07-11 Thread Alexander Syring
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

Re: Visually Impaired?

2008-07-11 Thread Esben Stien
John Whitmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I knew a blind person I could find out. There is the linux-blind (blinux) mailing list for blind or impaired people. Nice list for terminal junkies, too;). -- Esben Stien is [EMAIL PROTECTED] s a http://www. s t

Re: Visually Impaired?

2008-07-11 Thread AVee
On Friday 11 July 2008 15:51, Joseph Reeves wrote: My very first thought... How about overlaying the screen with a sheet of rubber buttons? I'm thinking of the sort of thing that you get inside cheap mobile phones, TV remotes, pocket calculators; that sort of stuff. The number 5 would have

Re: Visually Impaired?

2008-07-11 Thread Gilles Casse
Hello, A guide regarding accessible phones from the RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People), list of specific phones or specific softwares (screen readers) for mass market phones: http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_mobphonesfactsheet.hcsp Best

Re: Visually Impaired?

2008-07-11 Thread John Whitmore
Gilles Casse wrote: Hello, A guide regarding accessible phones from the RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People), list of specific phones or specific softwares (screen readers) for mass market phones:

Re: Visually Impaired?

2008-07-11 Thread Gilles Casse
are envisioning (speech recognition, gestures, predefined keys on touch screen,...). Yes, a user interface _exclusively_ based on vision will exclude visually impaired people. This seems quite obvious, in fact not so much, it depends on our own awareness of accessibility barriers :-/ Best regards, Gilles