Re: Openmoko for blind users?
Crane, Matthew wrote: Seems to me OM would be a good platform to quickly implement something like this on a working phone. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127015.700-vibrating-touch-scree n-puts-braille-at-the-fingertips.html There quite a few ways to help the blind using this phone: * Some aren't completely blind, and can be helped with an enormous font. Up to one character covering the display, if need be. * USB have some options. One can connect a keyboard or a smaller numerical keyboard. Of course these can have braille keys. * It is also possible to connect a braille output device braille screen?. Such devices works well with the command-line interface. We already have a command-line app for sending SMS. Adding command-line apps for making calls and reading SMS isn't hard either. * speech synthesizers can read sms (and other stuff) over the speaker. Free ones exists, for quite a few languages. Being open, it isn't that hard to install alternative software. There are already linux software for the blind. Helge Hafting ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Openmoko for blind users?
Seems to me OM would be a good platform to quickly implement something like this on a working phone. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127015.700-vibrating-touch-scree n-puts-braille-at-the-fingertips.html ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Openmoko for blind users?
2009/3/31 Crane, Matthew mcran...@harris.com Seems to me OM would be a good platform to quickly implement something like this on a working phone. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127015.700-vibrating-touch-scree n-puts-braille-at-the-fingertips.htmlhttp://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127015.700-vibrating-touch-scree%0An-puts-braille-at-the-fingertips.html That's a really nice start to making touchscreen devices friendlier for blind users. It'd be great for this to be ported to OpenMoko! ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Openmoko for blind users?
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: 2009/3/31 Crane, Matthew mcran...@harris.com Seems to me OM would be a good platform to quickly implement something like this on a working phone. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127015.700-vibrating-touch-scree n-puts-braille-at-the-fingertips.html That's a really nice start to making touchscreen devices friendlier for blind users. It'd be great for this to be ported to OpenMoko! One of the more obvious problems, and it shows in the article, is that Braille is 2 dimensional, and the pulses are only one-dimensional. Perhaps having an interface with morse code could help here. Ofcourse, you can do both the '1-dimensional braille' and morse and let the user select. But 1 character in 1.25 seconds sounds like a long time! Morse is (can be) much quicker than that. Christ van Willegen -- 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
