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From: "Davanzo Luca" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 9:15 AM
Subject: java me accessibility
As probably many of you know, recently has been put on the market a product
called TALKS
(www.talks.de): essentially it's a kind of screen reader that allows blind
people to access almost all functionality of a compatible cell phone (for
example Nokia's series 60, communicator, some siemens and Ericsson models).
This product is a true screen reader not an ad-hoc blind interface, and in
fact I know it works reasonably well (some times very well) with some
user-downloaded applications without needing any custom configuration.
I wonder if anyone has the opportunity to try some very simple java me
applications (not games of course!) using talks with a compatible phone
(almost the supported models support java me MIDP applications).
My idea is that if a phone uses native APIs to render user interface
written in Java (as was with old version of AWT in windows) perhaps some
j2Me applications could be written to be accessible.
Unfortunately I haven't a compatible phone to try on myself.
Any experiences or ideas about this?
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