[nfbcs] Mobile Accessibility is Now Available for Purchase

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Mobile Accessibility On Sale


Mobile Accessibility is Now Available for Purchase




Making Android Phones Accessible to the Blind


Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain, March 30th, 2011

Mobile Accessibility, our screen-access 
application that allows people who are blind or 
have low vision to use an Android phone in an 
intuitive, easy and simple way, is now on 
sale.  Mobile Accessibility is the first 
accessible Android application that permits 
intuitive touchscreen navigation of Android 
phones, featuring text readback via natural 
sounding voices powered by Nuance’s Vocalizer® text-to-speech technology.

You can purchase the application directly from 
the Market application of your Android phone, or from the web page:
    * US English: 
<https://market.android.com/details?id=es.codefactory.android.app.ma.vocalizerenu&feature=search_result>https://market.android.com/details?id=es.codefactory.android.app.ma.vocalizerenu&feature=search_result 

    * UK English: 
<https://market.android.com/details?id=es.codefactory.android.app.ma.vocalizereng&feature=search_result>https://market.android.com/details?id=es.codefactory.android.app.ma.vocalizereng&feature=search_result 


For more information on how to purchase your copy 
of Mobile Accessibility please go to 
<http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=415#getit>http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=415#getit 


If you still have not tried it, you should do it 
now. Our 30-day demos are available here:
    * Mobile Accessibility Demo US: 
<https://market.android.com/details?id=es.codefactory.android.app.ma.vocalizerenudemo&feature=search_result>https://market.android.com/details?id=es.codefactory.android.app.ma.vocalizerenudemo&feature=search_result 

    * Mobile Accessibility Demo UK: 
<https://market.android.com/details?id=es.codefactory.android.app.ma.vocalizerengdemo&feature=search_result>https://market.android.com/details?id=es.codefactory.android.app.ma.vocalizerengdemo&feature=search_result 


Mobile Accessibility is only available in English 
at the moment. Languages to follow soon 
are:  Spanish, Italian, German, French and Portuguese.

Mobile Accessibility doesn't support multiple 
languages at one time. If you buy the English 
version of Mobile Accessibility you will not be 
able to use it in another language like French or 
Spanish. There will be a specific version of 
Mobile Accessibility for each language and each 
version will have to be purchased separately. US 
and UK English are 2 different languages.


Mobile Accessibility is two products in one:

    * A suite of 10 accessible applications 
(Phone, Contacts, SMS, Alarm, Calendar, Email, 
Web, Where am I, Apps and Settings) that have 
been specially designed for the blind and 
visually impaired. They all have a simplified 
interface whose textual information is spoken 
using Nuance Vocalizer® voice synthesis.
    * A screen reader that allows users to get 
out of the suite and navigate the standard interface of their phone.


The major features of Mobile Accessibility are the following:

    * Touch navigation: You can use Mobile 
Accessibility not only with the trackball or the 
physical keyboard of your phone, but also with 
its touchscreen! Simply move your finger around 
the screen and the voice synthesis will read the 
text located under your finger. Or if you prefer, 
you can also swipe up/down/right/left and tap on 
the screen to navigate through the interface. And 
if you wish you can enable sound and vibration feedback.
    * Easy to input text: In or outside the 
Mobile Accessibility suite you can use the touch 
QWERTY keyboard as well as speech recognition to 
write text quickly and easily. Imagine writing an 
SMS or an Email using your voice only.
    * Voice synthesis: Code Factory has been 
making mobile phones accessible to the blind and 
visually impaired for many years now, and they 
know that the voice matters... and a lot! For 
Mobile Accessibility, Code Factory has partnered 
with Nuance® to leverage its trusted Vocalizer 
text-to-speech technology, providing consumers 
with natural sounding voice readback.


Inside the Mobile Accessibility suite of 
accessible applications you can do the following

    * Phone: Make calls, answer calls, hear the 
caller ID and manage your call log.
    * Contacts: Manage your contacts, even those 
from social networks such as Facebook.
    * SMS: Compose and read short messages. Manage conversations.
    * Alarms: Set your alarms.
    * Web: Full web browser experience, similar 
to what you can find on your PC. Jump by the 
control of your choice (links, paragraphs, 
headings, forms, etc.) to navigate faster to the 
information of your interest. Bookmark your favourite webpages.
    * Calendar: Create, edit and delete a 
calendar entry. View all events per day, week or month.
    * Email: Full access to your Gmail account
    * Where am I? : GPS application that gives 
you updates on your current location.
    * Settings: Change ringtone. Configure 
feedback and notifications (vibration or audio). 
Configure keyboard echo, punctuation verbosity, speech pitch and rate, etc.
    * Quick access to date and time, phone status 
information such as battery level and network 
coverage, number of missed calls and unread messages, etc.

To hear Mobile Accessibility in action listen to 
videos and audio demos at 
<http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=415#video>http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=415#video 


Mobile Accessibility supports all Android phones 
from version 2.1 and above. Please note that 
voice recognition is only supported with version 
2.2 and above. Note also that if you want to use 
the screen reader functionality of Mobile 
Accessibility you will need a phone with physical 
navigational controls such as a trackball or 
trackpad. You can find more information about 
Android phones at 
<http://www.google.com/phone/#manufacturer=all&category=all&carrier=all&country=all&reset_filters=1>http://www.google.com/phone/#manufacturer=all&category=all&carrier=all&country=all&reset_filters=1 


To learn how to use Mobile Accessibility for 
Android, please consult the user guide at 
<http://www.codefactory.es/MA/en/ma_1_0_manual.html>http://www.codefactory.es/MA/en/ma_1_0_manual.html. 
For technical assistance, please submit a ticket 
through Code Factory’s Help Desk at 
<http://www.codefactory.cat/helpdesk/>http://www.codefactory.cat/helpdesk/

For more information, feel free to contact Code Factory S.L.:


Code Factory, S.L., Rambla d'Egara 148 2-2, 08221 Terrassa (Barcelona)
<http://www.codefactory.cat/helpdesk/>HelpDesk, www.codefactory.es
Code Factory, S.L. - 2011