RE: [UACCESS-L] FW: braille cell phone!!

[Robert Carnegie <Robert.Carnegie@seemis.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Rebman [mailto:james.rebman@colorado.edu]
Sent: 01 April 2003 00:01
To: Uaccess-l@trace.wisc.edu
Subject: Re: [UACCESS-L] FW: braille cell phone!!

"When is anybody going to make an accessible phone that uses CDMA instead of GSM?" 

[Robert Carnegie] At a guess: when you can buy both a decent Bluetooth-equipped CDMA phone and a Bluetooth accessible input/output device, /and/ they talk to each other - which is never quite as easy as you think.  But the day may come when a single accessory device makes a whole range of phones accessible.

 

Alternatively: when the FCC make it illegal for any phone company /not/ to offer an accessible product.

 

Aren't modern units accessible enough for actual phone calls, anyway?

 

For now, Europe is ahead.  I don't /know/ if Professor Stephen Hawking has text messaging, but I wouldn't be surprised.  He uses e-mail, which is probably built into the chair.

 

AIUI, part of the problem making text messaging accessible is the gibberish that people write as shorthand - in a way, /every/ user has an accessibility issue with these devices.  Maybe the translation problem needs Professor Hawking's genius.

 

PS: not quite list-reevant, but http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/30015.html    might amuse.

 

PPS: I probably should apologise from time to time for the unavoidable(?) junk at the end of messages from this address.

 

 

 

 

 

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