Comments on: unseemly accessibility&mobility – be careful what you wish for https://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/2011/04/23/unseemly-accessibilitymobility-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/ The Cambridge Systems Research Blog Sat, 07 May 2011 14:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Malcolm https://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/2011/04/23/unseemly-accessibilitymobility-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Sat, 07 May 2011 14:15:00 +0000 http://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/?p=320#comment-67 The iPhone supposedly has fairly decent accessibility features: http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html … not that I’ve tried them.

Recent Nokias (e.g. N900, E51) make SIP and GSM calls equivalent in the UI – although not so cleanly for Skype. I suspect Skype is held back in this regard by its closedness…

]]> By: Laura James https://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/2011/04/23/unseemly-accessibilitymobility-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:11:55 +0000 http://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/?p=320#comment-47 Let me know if you find any smartphone which will work for people with long sight (and arthritic hands).

Maybe aging boomers will demonstrate enough of a market for accessibility for tech to start to address these challenges… because there’s nothing decent out there yet.

Ah well, that’s my next job sorted.

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