[access-uk] Re: Capital Accessibility Cellphone at CSUN
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:30:28 -0000
Tend to agree, at least by and large Steve.
I think a newbie to mobiles is better placed having a phone with a screen with
Talx or Mobile Speak or whatever its called. I'm becoming a bit of an old
curmudgeon when it comes to things like ring tones and all that paraphernalia,
but I do realise many want to be a total part of things as they are, no matter
what I might think.
I've never heard one of the Oasis phones in the flesh, but the voice I heard on
the CSUN recording didn't sound bad to me. They were talking though of the
feasibility of installing Eloquence speech, so I guess users are less than
pleased with the default speech voice.
On your thoughts on adapting mainstream equipment to our needs, I tend to
agree, but I'm afraid there's a hell of a lot of people around who crave
simpler solutions. Funnily enough a short thread on TAFN's list was discussing
the Guide software and this division between a general screen reader approach
vs. specialist self-voicing software came up. For anyone prepared to invest
the time and effort in learning to use a screen reader, it seems the extra cost
is worth it. On the other hand, there are those, and some not short of brain
cells, one presumes, who just cannot abide Learning Windows and all that goes
with it. The lady with the extremely irritating voice on In Touch the other
week is who I've got in mind particularly here.
Knout as strange as folk.
Ray
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: Hi Ray,
:
: I personally still have concerns about screenless phones of any kind. While
: they have to be great for access for us, if you as a blind person need help
: from a sighted colleague, it is quite hard for them to help you, without
: either dipping into the manual of the phone, or knowing the phone
: themselves. Sighted people by default are very used to using mobiles with
: screens, so when all of a sudden your Talks doesn't, you can ask a sighted
: person across the room if there is one, what is going on. This has always
: been my main concern with the Auasys phone and potential phones like it.
: Aside from the fact that the speech is inferior on the Auasys, there is no
: Bluetooth, no infrared, no way of downloading ring tones, no way of
: participating in society's general use of mobile phones, if you are blind.
: This is why I have, and always will, believe that getting mainstream
: equipment to talk is by far, the best solution for all.
:
: All the best
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