[Electronics-talk] Screen readers for Android [was "Re: talking app for android phones"]

[Christopher Chaltain]

I haven't heard of anyone using one of these screen readers on Android
tablets. This may be related to the fact that cellphones currently rung
Gingerbread (Android 2) while tablets run Honeycomb (Android 3). Ice
Cream Sandwich (Android 4) is the merge of Gingerbread and Honeycomb, so
Ice Cream Sandwich should support both cell phones and tablets, and
furthermore, Ice Cream Sandwich has some significant accessibility
improvements. People may be able to run these screen readers on
Honeycomb, and I just don't know about it, but I'm thinking this will
all come together on the cell phones and tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich.

My understanding is this is off topic for this list, so I'd suggest
moving future questions and discussions to the blind phones list, which
you can subscribe to by sending a message to:
blindphones-subscribe at mosenexplosion.com

Note this is just my understanding of the list guidelines, but either
way, you may get better answers on an Android or cell phone list.

On 27/02/12 14:03, Nicole B. Torcolini at Home wrote:
> Do these also work on tablets?
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Baracco, Andrew W"
> <Andrew.Baracco at va.gov>
> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 11:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] talking app for android phones
> 
> 
>> There are at least 3 that I can think of.  Talk Back is produced by the
>> Eyes Free Team at Google.  Spiel is produced by a 3rd party developer.
>> Both are free.  Mobile Accessibility is produced by Code Factory, the
>> producers of Mobile Speak.  It consists of two parts.  One is a suite of
>> accessible apps, such as an Email client, text message client, media
>> player, etc.  The other part is a kind of screen reader that will make
>> other apps accessible.  I believe that the full version costs $95, but
>> some carriers are offering a less featured version for free.  I believe
>> that the Mobile Accessibility app is about to have a major upgrade soon,
>> that will feature support for blue tooth Braille displays.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Hannah
>> Chadwick
>> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 8:51 PM
>> To: 'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'
>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] talking app for android phones
>>
>> Hello all,
>> I was wondering if anyone know the name of the talking app for the
>> android phones?
>> All the best, Hannah
>>
>>
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