[Electronics-Talk] Accessible Phones?

Fri Sep 10 13:49:15 UTC 2021

Over the years I've heard it often, "It can't be done, it won't do it, we don't have it."  etc.  Upon investigating it is as simple as they don't know and just refuse to find out. They are just too lazy, to them, work is a 4 letter word. Ironically our telephone provider were the worst offenders of this verbiage. I learned to be tactful and would just say, "Well, humor me and see."  Some when they found out I was right, would swear. Now to be fare about it and this was what I was told, most people don't care about features, they just purchase the item or feature.      

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Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Accessible Phones?

This snippet is taken directly from the Lively Flip Owners Manual:

Accessibility (continued)

Turning Read Out On or Off: STEP 4

Turning on Read Out sets the phone to read screen content out loud to you.

1. From the Main Menu, select Settings and press .
2. Select Accessibility and press .
3. Select Read Out and press .
4. Select On or Off and press .

To me, this implies that the Lively Flip has speech output for the onscreen menus.  Yet, a company rep insisted that the Lively Flip has no such speech output, so either he didn't know what he was talking about,or else the manual is inaccurate.

Gerald

On 9/9/2021 6:14 PM, David Goldfield via Electronics-Talk wrote:
> According to Lively's Web site their latest flip phone<https://www.lively.com/phones/jitterbug-flip2/> does contain Alexa. I didn't do an exhaustive search but I don't see evidence of an actual screen reader or voice guide system.
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> Are you talking about land line phones or cell phones?  If you are talking about cell phones, Lively Mobile, formerly Great Call,  offers the Lively Flip phone for $99 that has large, tactile buttons and is designed to be senior friendly.  It also has built-in Alexa, but it is not clear whether it also has speech for the menu options.  The owners guide claims that it can "read out loud what is on the screen", but when I I inquired about this on the Best Buy web site, a company rep claimed that it does not have speech output to read the menus, so I don't know what to believe.  The Lively Flip can be purchased at Best Buy stores, and they will activate it and set it up for you.  Another flip phone option is the Link 2, which is made for Consumer Cellular and is available at Target stores for $35, but does not have any built-in speech capability.  But it also has large, tactile buttons and like the Lively Flip, is designed to be "senior friendly", and would be a good option if all you want to do is make and receive phone calls. Like Best Buy, Target will activate and set up the Link 2 for you.
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>> I know this topic has come up here before, but a friend of mine has 
>> an old push button phone that their carrier won't support any more.  
>> What is the newest one of these phones, and who sells it?
>> Thanks in advance.  I know this topic was a long thread on the list, 
>> so if you want to write privately, my email is:
>> don.moore48 at reagan.com<mailto:don.moore48 at reagan.com>
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