[Electronics-Talk] smartphone for the blind

[Arlene]

Sandra, I'm with you, I don't want to talk to anything. If all the menues 
and buttons talk that's what I'm looking for especially in a button phone. 
Also I don't like to buy anything right way either. Give it time for bugs to 
be worked out of it, and as in this new phone possibly in time the price 
will go down to some extent.

Arlene
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sandra Streeter via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Sandra Streeter" <sandrastreeter381 at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 9:32 AM
Subject: [Electronics-Talk] smartphone for the blind


>I am not scared of it being Android. I am scared, however, of it becoming a 
>paper-weight, as some have pointed out. Now, for those who know more than 
>I: I would be interested in this aspect of deaf history: How did the deaf 
>get closed-captioning, TTY’s, etc., so mainstream? It seems that we 
>struggle a lot more to get blind-friendly things to happen, to be 
>affordable, and to stick around. It’s even worse if, like me, you have 
>other issues than blindness that make using a touch-screen untenable, and 
>you need something like the Envision 2 to even be able to get on the 
>learning curve for mastering a ‘'new smartphone. Before anyone brings up 
>the idea of voice commanding, I also would prefer not to talk; I know I’m a 
>whiner and complainer, and you have all see my wish list for the perfect 
>smartphone, but sometimes, it bears repeating. If I had the money to get 
>the Envision, I probably would, except for that one problem of how long it 
>would be supported; I’d be inclined to wait a couple years to make sure any 
>bugs were worked out and that it still had some longevity, and maybe even 
>to wait for the price to drop a bit—as tempting as it is to be hasty. So, 
>in the interim, I may end up with a feature phone, which I could at least 
>use for texting and phone calls on the road, and at work, where you really 
>need something you can function with.
>
>
> Sandra
>
> “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he 
> hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however 
> measured or far away.”
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