That misses the point. The screenreader aims to make the phone or computer
accessible as far as it is possible to do so. The choice of what is used
is left to the user. What we might call for the sake of this argument the
"Guide" approach makes choices as to what the user might want to use. It
is the same difference between an extracted talking newspaper where
someone else has made an editorial choice as to what you will get and the
whole text of the newspaper where the reader makes the choices of what
he/she wants to read.
The problem with the "guide" approach is that though it offers what
appears to be a quick start in getting things done, the user is stuffed
when he/she wants to do anything outside the capabilities of the program.
This is why so many people find themselves progressing from Guide to a
screenreading program such as NVDA or even a paid-for program.
Iain
-----Original Message-----
From: Eleanor Burke
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 11:06 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: New Accessible Phone for Blind People
You use a screen reader for blind people. Do you not like Talks software
for the blind either?
-----Original message-----
From: Alex Stone
Sent: 15/07/2012, 10:57 pm
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: New Accessible Phone for Blind People
I really don't want a "special" mobile phone for blind people.
Alex
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of
Tom Lorimer
Sent: 14 July 2012 11:43
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: New Accessible Phone for Blind People
Hi Jeff,
Try this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18818279
Tom.
----- Original Message -----
From: jeff flint <mailto:jeffflint15@xxxxxxxxx>
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 10:54 AM
Subject: [access-uk] New Accessible Phone for Blind People
My brother in Australia heard a report from England that a new mobile
phone,
with lots of bells an whistles, was launched last Thursday in London.
Does anybody know anything about it?
Jeff
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