Windows Phone 7
Mobile Speak for Windows Mobile, 5 years of successes and challenges
Code Factory products will not be compatible with the initial versions of Windows Phone 7
Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain, September, 1st, 2010
Code Factory has always shown a great commitment to keep up-to-date with the latest mobile phone technology. Back in 2005, Code Factory launched Mobile Speak Pocket. “Many of our users were asking us to make Windows Mobile Pocket PCs accessible, because at the time they were the only professional-oriented mobile devices,” explained Eduard Sánchez, Code Factory’s CEO. “One of our top priorities has always been to allow our profesionnal blind and visually impaired users to be as efficient and productive as their sighted peers. Therefore, based on the experience of Mobile Speak for Symbian phones released two years earlier, we put together all our passion, knowledge and effort and developed Mobile Speak for Windows Mobile”.
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Google Funds New Research To Help Blind Web Surfers
March 30, 2010
(PhysOrg.com) New research by University of Manchester scientists that could help blind people find their way around the World Wide Web has been given a boost with a £50,000 grant from Google.

Drs. Andy Brown, Caroline Jay and Simon Harper who are based at the University’s School of Computer Science, have already developed a prototype screen reader that has been successfully tested on blind web surfers in an independent evaluation.

The team used specialist eye tracking techniques to find out how sighted people interact with complex Web pages so they could translate the pages into audio. Now they are working with Google to make their technology, which is not yet suitable for general use, freely available to people with visual impairments.
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iRead

iRead: „simply reading“
 
The reading software iRead converts a Windows-PC with scanner and screen reader into an open reading system
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A framework for making virtual worlds accessible to the visually impaired

Sapre, Manjari. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009.

Virtual Worlds have virtually exploded in popularity and have experienced significant commercial success. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple IPhone Model 3GS
This page contains information from Apple and also the personal ovservations of a brand new blind IPhone 3GS user.

Apple Product Information
The revolutionary iPhone also includes an equally revolutionary screen reader, and other innovative accessibility features that make it easier to use for those with impaired vision.
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Screen Reader Users Wanted To Participate In Followup Survey
We posted the first survey request a few months ago. Your participation is, of course, voluntary, but would be useful and we encourage you to participate.
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Participants Needed For Screen Reader Survey

This seems like a good opportunity to have some useful input into the accessibility process. Accessible Devices urges you to participate in this survey. Read the rest of this entry »