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The National Federation of the Blind and Motorola announced that they will cooperate to “promote technologies that improve the accessibility of cell phones to blind consumers.” As a result, some of the future Motorola handsets, which will be released next year, will provide verbal readouts of information displayed on the screen to assist blind people. Among the information that will be read to the users are time and date, battery level, signal strength, user’s phone number, caller ID, voice mail alerts, incoming, missed and received calls. In addition, blind users will also be able to input and access contacts, and various other settings.
It’s good that Motorola has agreed to cooperate with the National Federation of the Blind, and I’m hoping that every major handset maker will do its part to make its devices possible to use by the blind people. Simply said – it’s the right thing to do!
About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
