[Electronics-talk] Accessible Phone Systems:

Wed Feb 13 21:29:23 UTC 2013

I have an iphone that is compleetly equipt with Voice Over. Whenever I get a 
phone call, Voice Over tells me who is calling. Whenever I get a text 
message, Voice Over reads it to me. Voice Over is a wonderful screen reader 
for the iphone! I can do almost anything on my iphone that someone who has 
eyes can. As long as there is an app and that app is accessable, I can do it 
independently. Sure, there are only a few bottons on the iphone, sure, it's 
a flat screen but because of the universal design of the iphone, I'm not 
stopped from using the iphone. When my old Envi 9900 died last summer, I did 
my research and discovered that I would have to go straite to the iphone 
because nothing else that I found was accessable to a blind user without 
spending an arm and a leg just for the screen reader. Yes, you spend an arm 
and a leg for the iphone but it's a lot more worth the buck than the others 
because of the universal design that is built right into the iphone. You do 
a lot more with the iphone than just talk. I get more bang for my buck with 
my phone plan because I can do a lot more than just talk, check the coller 
I.D. and voice mail and read incoming text messages for only thirty more 
dollars than my old plan. I can watch any hockey or football game that I 
want which I never had that before with a televition in my whole life. I can 
listen to any radio station that I want because of Tune In Radio. I also 
have Pandora, Stiture and Shout Cast which are also radio apps. I can even 
read the newspaper on my phone because of the wonderful NFB newsline app. I 
also have KGW and Fox News for news apps. I have some bird identafier apps 
and could go on for a while about them. I can say the same for my other apps 
that I have not listed. The iphone is the most accessable phone on the 
market. If you are not looking for the iphone, the old Env 9900 was an 
awesome phone if all you want is collar I.D., voice mail and talking. Too 
bad they don't sell the Envie 9900's any more! I wanted to get another one 
but found out that they were not avalable so I jumpped strait to the iphone. 
Yes, I still don't regret that technological jump. Heck, I have more freedom 
with the iphone than I ever did with the old Env 9900. As for current phones 
on the market, the iphone is the best one out there for a blind user. I 
don't know of any good phone with buttons that have just come out. The 
phones with buttons that I know of have been around for a while. As far as I 
know, everyone that I know who uses a phone with regular phone buttons have 
had them for a while. Either that, or they have been on the market for a 
while. I don't know of a phone with buttons that you can use independently 
if you were talking of getting an upgraid. You would have to talk with your 
phone pervider on that one. I am a Varizon costomer. I know for Varizon 
users that there isn't an accessable phone that you can easily get with an 
upgraid. When my old Envi 9900 died, I did my homework behind what I said. I 
would recamend that you make the jump strait to the iphone and call it good 
since as I've raived about the universal design that is built right in.
Kendra
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Annette Carr" <amcarr1 at verizon.net>
To: "'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'" 
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Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 6:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Accessible Phone Systems:


> Over the years we have had Panasonics.  They had talking Caller ID and 
> other
> features.  I needed sighted help to get them set up.  Now we have an AT&T
> and although it has talking Caller Id, I hate the buttons.  They are too 
> big
> and it makes dialing difficult for me.
>
> Unfortunately, I do not know the model numbers for any of these phones.
> When we are in the market for a new phone, we go to Best Buy, look to see
> what they have and what the features are and then we come home and 
> research
> those models that have talking caller ID and whatever other features we 
> are
> interested in at that time.
>
> HTH,
> Annette
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of moore at donaldmoore.org
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 9:38 PM
> To: 'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'
> Subject: [Electronics-talk] Accessible Phone Systems:
>
> I'm looking to purchase a base phone with several handsets for my home. 
> Is
> there anything good and accessible you could recommend?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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