From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from scanmail1.cableone.net ([24.116.0.121] helo=mail.cableone.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AZgva-0001te-00 for ; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 20:38:10 -0500 Received: from desktop (unverified [24.116.90.244]) by smail1.cableone.net (SurgeMail 1.5d2) with ESMTP id 53654 for ; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 18:35:55 -0700 Message-ID: <045e01c3cb50$f3c804e0$6d00a8c0@desktop> From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20031225160459.GE18873@rednote.net> <20031225183322.GA21667@dalek><040301c3cb43$14727a80$6d00a8c0@desktop><001901c3cb43$bc3f2c90$0501a8c0@dkit.ie> <20031226004409.GJ18873@rednote.net> Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 19:38:24 -0600 Organization: Home MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com Subject: Re: 2004: My Next Wireless Phone X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: Glenn Ervin at Home , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 01:38:10 -0000 It would sure make driving safer if all phones were equipped with voice output. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 6:44 PM Subject: Re: 2004: My Next Wireless Phone My comment to them during their presentation at TechShare was that they should simply market it as an audio interface telephone. Never mind blind people--the market may well be much larger than that. Until just a few years ago, all phones were audio only. There's every reason to believe a lot of people might like this kind of phone, whether or not they're blind. Darragh writes: > From: "Darragh" > > It sounds like a nice phone but I don't like the idea of a phone specificly > for visually impaired. I like to stick with main streem products and > install adapted software to make them accessible. > > There's plenty of information about it though. Just do a search for some > related words on google. > > Darragh > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina@rednote.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://accessibility.freestandards.org _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup