[Electronics-talk] Mobile Accessibility is Now Available for Purchase
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Caroline Ragot - Marketing
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Mobile Accessibility On Sale
Mobile Accessibility is Now Available for Purchase
Making Android Phones Accessible to the Blind
Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain, March 30th, 2011
Mobile Accessibility, our screen-access
application that allows people who are blind or
have low vision to use an Android phone in an
intuitive, easy and simple way, is now on
sale. Mobile Accessibility is the first
accessible Android application that permits
intuitive touchscreen navigation of Android
phones, featuring text readback via natural
sounding voices powered by Nuances Vocalizer® text-to-speech technology.
You can purchase the application directly from
the Market application of your Android phone, or from the web page:
* US English:
<https://market.android.com/details?id=es.codefactory.android.app.ma.vocalizerenu&feature=search_result>https://market.android.com/details?id=es.codefactory.android.app.ma.vocalizerenu&feature=search_result
* UK English:
<https://market.android.com/details?id=es.codefactory.android.app.ma.vocalizereng&feature=search_result>https://market.android.com/details?id=es.codefactory.android.app.ma.vocalizereng&feature=search_result
For more information on how to purchase your copy
of Mobile Accessibility please go to
<http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=415#getit>http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=415#getit
If you still have not tried it, you should do it
now. Our 30-day demos are available here:
* Mobile Accessibility Demo US:
<https://market.android.com/details?id=es.codefactory.android.app.ma.vocalizerenudemo&feature=search_result>https://market.android.com/details?id=es.codefactory.android.app.ma.vocalizerenudemo&feature=search_result
* Mobile Accessibility Demo UK:
<https://market.android.com/details?id=es.codefactory.android.app.ma.vocalizerengdemo&feature=search_result>https://market.android.com/details?id=es.codefactory.android.app.ma.vocalizerengdemo&feature=search_result
Mobile Accessibility is only available in English
at the moment. Languages to follow soon
are: Spanish, Italian, German, French and Portuguese.
Mobile Accessibility doesn't support multiple
languages at one time. If you buy the English
version of Mobile Accessibility you will not be
able to use it in another language like French or
Spanish. There will be a specific version of
Mobile Accessibility for each language and each
version will have to be purchased separately. US
and UK English are 2 different languages.
Mobile Accessibility is two products in one:
* A suite of 10 accessible applications
(Phone, Contacts, SMS, Alarm, Calendar, Email,
Web, Where am I, Apps and Settings) that have
been specially designed for the blind and
visually impaired. They all have a simplified
interface whose textual information is spoken
using Nuance Vocalizer® voice synthesis.
* A screen reader that allows users to get
out of the suite and navigate the standard interface of their phone.
The major features of Mobile Accessibility are the following:
* Touch navigation: You can use Mobile
Accessibility not only with the trackball or the
physical keyboard of your phone, but also with
its touchscreen! Simply move your finger around
the screen and the voice synthesis will read the
text located under your finger. Or if you prefer,
you can also swipe up/down/right/left and tap on
the screen to navigate through the interface. And
if you wish you can enable sound and vibration feedback.
* Easy to input text: In or outside the
Mobile Accessibility suite you can use the touch
QWERTY keyboard as well as speech recognition to
write text quickly and easily. Imagine writing an
SMS or an Email using your voice only.
* Voice synthesis: Code Factory has been
making mobile phones accessible to the blind and
visually impaired for many years now, and they
know that the voice matters... and a lot! For
Mobile Accessibility, Code Factory has partnered
with Nuance® to leverage its trusted Vocalizer
text-to-speech technology, providing consumers
with natural sounding voice readback.
Inside the Mobile Accessibility suite of
accessible applications you can do the following
* Phone: Make calls, answer calls, hear the
caller ID and manage your call log.
* Contacts: Manage your contacts, even those
from social networks such as Facebook.
* SMS: Compose and read short messages. Manage conversations.
* Alarms: Set your alarms.
* Web: Full web browser experience, similar
to what you can find on your PC. Jump by the
control of your choice (links, paragraphs,
headings, forms, etc.) to navigate faster to the
information of your interest. Bookmark your favourite webpages.
* Calendar: Create, edit and delete a
calendar entry. View all events per day, week or month.
* Email: Full access to your Gmail account
* Where am I? : GPS application that gives
you updates on your current location.
* Settings: Change ringtone. Configure
feedback and notifications (vibration or audio).
Configure keyboard echo, punctuation verbosity, speech pitch and rate, etc.
* Quick access to date and time, phone status
information such as battery level and network
coverage, number of missed calls and unread messages, etc.
To hear Mobile Accessibility in action listen to
videos and audio demos at
<http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=415#video>http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=415#video
Mobile Accessibility supports all Android phones
from version 2.1 and above. Please note that
voice recognition is only supported with version
2.2 and above. Note also that if you want to use
the screen reader functionality of Mobile
Accessibility you will need a phone with physical
navigational controls such as a trackball or
trackpad. You can find more information about
Android phones at
<http://www.google.com/phone/#manufacturer=all&category=all&carrier=all&country=all&reset_filters=1>http://www.google.com/phone/#manufacturer=all&category=all&carrier=all&country=all&reset_filters=1
To learn how to use Mobile Accessibility for
Android, please consult the user guide at
<http://www.codefactory.es/MA/en/ma_1_0_manual.html>http://www.codefactory.es/MA/en/ma_1_0_manual.html.
For technical assistance, please submit a ticket
through Code Factorys Help Desk at
<http://www.codefactory.cat/helpdesk/>http://www.codefactory.cat/helpdesk/
For more information, feel free to contact Code Factory S.L.:
Code Factory, S.L., Rambla d'Egara 148 2-2, 08221 Terrassa (Barcelona)
<http://www.codefactory.cat/helpdesk/>HelpDesk, www.codefactory.es
Code Factory, S.L. - 2011
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