if your are not deaf and blind, you will surely rather use a screenreader to handle your phone.
Nuance Talks runs fine on many Nokia Symbian OS phones.
Nokia should rather concentrate on screenreader accessibility.
That the accessibility topic is not important for Nokia is obvious.
I can write here, because I can see.
Blind people fail to register because of the strange letters that have to be entered - there is no way to *hear* them instead of reading.
Also Nokia Maps is getting worse to use with a screenreadre with each version!
If you want to improve, do the obvious things first.
Until then we are worried about the sanity or hearing of finnish blind person association who gave their name to promote this useless application... It takes you at least 3 minutes to read an sms with this tool...
It's just embarrassing for nokia, nothing else.
If you want to make blind persons a favor, produce cellphones that you can use with *any* headphone, also with ones that go with hearing devices and that are comfy for all ears.
Deaf blind persons will demand for a braille interface, because reading is much faster then.
And, by the way, next time you develop a feature for the blind, make a podcast, not a video.
It is not explained without looking at the video, how the application works.
As I said - made without thinking.
Regards
Lulu-Ann
OpenStreetMap Accessibility Contributor
Germany
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I totally agree with Lulu-Ann. As shown in the video, you still need to perform some "visual" steps to get the application started. It means that in order to do so, if you are visually impaired or blind, you still need to have a screen reader software in place. Why would you bother waisting time concentrating on the vibrations while that same screen reader can read your text messages? Probably a good solution for a deafblind user, but still needs a different approach to be fully functional.
It is indeed a total contradiction, being this a forum to discuss accessibilty, that a blind or parcially sighted user can't register to contribute with a comment because the registration form is not accessible! Funny, huh?
I agree Lulu-Ann, -made without thinking.
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BTW, there is a firefox addon that helps the blind and visually impaired solve CAPtCHAs.
It's no excuse for not having a built in accessible alternative, but I thought you might find it useful.
