[Electronics-Talk] smartphone for the blind

[Ashley Bramlett]

Arlene,
I agree with you and Sandra.
I prefer buttons and voice commands have their downfalls especially since 
its not an exact science and the machine can misunderstand you.
It’s a nice option but I would only feel comfortable using voice commands in 
certain environments.

What type of phone do you have? From your message, I assume you also have a 
phone with buttons.
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Arlene via Electronics-Talk
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 3:03 PM
To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
Cc: Arlene
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] smartphone for the blind

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
>
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