i recently came across one model of Motorola milestone costing around 26000. had some excellent features with fully touch customized. There are some web sights explaining the accessibility in android.
this might clear the features available and are accessible: Android 2.0 (Eclair) is a major improvement in Google’s mobile OS. Android is actually a mobile operating system running on the Linux kernel. It was initially developed by Android Inc., a firm later purchased by Google, and lately by the Open Handset Alliance. It allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries. * * * Android 2.0 follows on from Android 1.6 "Donut", which introduced many new accessibility features designed to make Android apps more widely usable by blind and low-vision users. In brief, Android 1.6 includes a built-in screenreader and text-to-speech (TTS) engine which make it possible to use most Android applications, as well as all of Android's default UI, when not looking at the screen. Android 2.0 Features: * Digital Zoom * Bluetooth 2.1 * Revamped UI * New contact lists * Improved virtual keyboard * Optimized hardware speed * Microsoft Exchange support * Improved Google Maps 3.1.2 * Built in flash support for Camera * New browser UI and HTML5 support * Better white/black ratio for backgrounds * Support for more screen sizes and resolutions Android 2.0 Accessibility Features: * A standardized Text To Speech API is part of the Android SDK. * An improved keyboard layout to makes it easier to hit the correct characters and improve typing speed. * Text-to-Speech (TTS) comes with voices for English (U.S. and U.K.), French, Italian, Spanish and German. * Project Eyes-Free (which includes accessibility tools such as TalkBack) provides several UI enhancements for using touch-screen input. Many of these innovations are available via Android Market and are already being heavily used. * Starting with Android 1.6, the Android platform includes a set of easy to use accessibility APIs that make it possible to create accessibility aids such as screenreaders for the blind. * The Android platform now comes with applications that provide spoken, auditory (non-speech sounds) and haptic (vibration) feedback. Named TalkBack, SoundBack and KickBack, these applications are available via the Settings - Accessibility menu. * Application authors can easily ensure that their applications remain usable by blind and visually impaired users by ensuring that all parts of the user interface are reachable via the trackball; and all image controls have associated textual metadata. * Quick Contact for Android provides instant access to a contact's information and communication modes. For example, a user can tap a contact photo and select to call, SMS, or email the person. Other applications such as Email, Messaging, and Calendar can also reveal the Quick Contact widget when you touch a contact photo or status icon. Android Version 2.0 is offers haptic feedback, (Haptic technology, or haptics, is a tactile feedback technology which takes advantage of a user's sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, and/or motions upon the user), built-in and a brand new Accessibility option, plus a new option for Text-to-speech. Besides that, Android 2.0 gives users more control over the settings and more opportunities to customize it based on thier preferences. With the exception of brief update periods, Android has been available as open source since 21 October 2008. Google opened the entire source code (including network and telephony stacks) under an Apache License. The first phone featuring Android 2.0 is the Droid from Verizon and Motorola. It’s not yet clear what other existing Android phones will be able to upgrade to Android 2.0, or when carriers will issue those software updates. Over the next few months, we expect to see more and more Android devices being released. These devices will be running Android 1.5, 1.6, or 2.0. so sir we can conclude it is in the developing stage and very near the day might be the one where we can have our hand playing on the touch screen android devises. very eager to know about any further information about this so if anyone had any further info please share. On 10/13/10, Asudani, Rajesh <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the cost of the android model and accessibility of such models? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of prateek > aggarwal > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 9:01 AM > To: accessindia > Subject: [AI] Google provides the visually-impaired with two new sets of > Android Eyes > > hi list, > i got to read the following news somewhere on the web, and thought to > share it with you. > it looks interesting to me, so if there's any android user on the > list, i'd like to request her/him to please give it a try and let us > know about your experiences with the following applications. > > will look forward for your responses. > > > > Google provides the visually-impaired with two new sets of Android Eyes > --- > > > Google has released two new Android applications designed to help the > blind and visually impaired with walking directions, pairing Google > Maps with GPS > navigation technology. The applications are > WalkyTalky > (from Google's Eyes-Free Project) eeand > Intersection Explorer. > > Here's how Google describes them: > > WalkyTalky > WalkyTalky is an Android application that speaks the address of nearby > locations as you pass them. It also provides more direct access to the > walking directions > component of Google Maps. With WalkyTalky installed, you can: > * Launch WalkyTalky to specify a destination, > * Either specify the destination by address, or pick from favorites or > recently visited locations, > * And in addition to spoken walking directions, > * Hear street addresses as you walk by. > > These spoken updates, in conjunction with the walking directions that > are spoken by Google Maps help users navigate the physical world as > efficiently as > they navigate the Internet. > > Intersection Explorer > Using this application, users can explore any neighborhood on Google > Maps via touch. > * Intersection Explorer starts off at the user's current location. > * One can change the start position by entering an address, to do > this, press menu and click on new location. > * Once the map has loaded, touching the screen speaks the streets at > the nearest intersection. > * Moving one's finger along a compass direction, and then tracing a > circle speaks each street at that intersection along with the > associated compass direction. > * Presence of streets is cued by a slight vibration as one traces the > circle. > * Lifting up the finger when on a street moves in that direction to > the next intersection, speaks the distance moved, and finally speaks > the newly arrived-at > intersection. > Intersection Explorer sounds like a way to "preview" the landscape, > before you actually get there. > > Both apps are free, and are in the Android Market now. > > Regards, > Prateek agarwal. > Skype: > Prateek_agarwal32 > Wanna see inside me? 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