Re: New phone / accessibility issues

[Josh de Lioncourt]

So, the argument is if a blind person just happens to find an iPhone 
lying around and just happens to be, at that moment, in an emergency 
situation, then they would need to be able to operate it? Clearly, if 
the phone isn't usable then the blind person wouldn't own it. If 911 can 
be accessed with a touch of the standard keys on the phone's casing, 
then that argument is moot anyway.

There are so many other issues that are so much more important than this 
that the government should be acting upon, where I would support it. The 
making of US currency accessible for example. I hope that the iPhone 
will be accessible by the blind. I would very likely purchase one if it 
was. But I don't think in this kind of access issue the government 
should have a say.


Greg Kearney wrote:
I would maintain that having all phones accessible to all users is a 
safety issue. The last thing you want is to have someone get to a 
phone in an emergency only to find that phone is is accessible to him. 
Of course the deaf deal wit this which is why we require tha tall 
phone be able to work with hearing aids and be connectable to modern 
TTY devices.

Greg