My wife has the Garmin Nuvi 350. It is surely compact, and can be 
handheld.  It does have a touch screen.  The directions and the word 
list feature speak, but that's it.  it is good for a person with low 
vision, because it has an easy to read screen, and you can do things 
with colors and print size, but it is unusable by a person with no vision.

Andy
At 01:42 PM 7/8/2007, you wrote:
>I'd rather go for one of the Garman products, but most of the models I'm
>interested in has touch screens. Also it's not speaking in menus etc.
>One of their staff at support once asked me "what does a blind person
>want to do with a Garman?"
>
>
>73
>ZS6KCS
>
>Kallie Swanepoel
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: For blind ham radio operators
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Butch Bussen
>Sent: 08 July 2007 22:36
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: talking gps?
>
>
>Well, I am not really impressed so far.  I borrowed this thing from a
>friend who had let the battery run down, so it lost everything.  I
>finally
>got street talk working enough to tell me where I was, but had a heck of
>a
>time telling how to reconnect to the gps receiver.  Maybe it is
>simple--I
>never figured it out.  I was doing some testing yesterday and the damn
>thing locked up solid.  I had to do a total reset.  Lost all my installs
>
>73s
>Butch Bussen
>wa0vjr
>
>and so forth.  I'm really not sure if I'll bother again for a while.