I'll probably be a basic phone user for a long time to come though one never knows and this one is specifically designed for us and I read a review of it from one of the former assistive tech dealers here though Lucia sounds ideal for me, thanks.
Ricky Lomey
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From: Dennis Long <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:54
To: 'Ricky Lomey' <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: [VICUG-L] SMART PHONES WITH BUTTONS ACCESSIBILITY QUESTION
If you want the smart vision line for more than calling and texting I don't know it is worth it. If you are a basic phone user and never plan to be even a little advanced than get it other wise get a iPhone and rivo2 keyboard and you have your accessible phone.
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From: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Ricky Lomey
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 5:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] SMART PHONES WITH BUTTONS ACCESSIBILITY QUESTION
Hi Harry,
Firstly thanks and apologies to Harry for the duplicate, I meant to reply to the list, before I talk about smart phones, I hope Lucia will come to South Africa as it originally was planned to although it isn't a smart phone. In terms of smart phones with buttons, I thought the one Cadence model as well as the Dura XV, both from Kyocera and can't work here, were smart phones. Vodafone is working on at least two options though not sure which they're trying to import, in terms of what is available, how should we do this, do you want links or articles or both? There is the RG310 from RugGear which is Australian and could be available in north America and has buttons too, apparently it has text to speech but no idea yet to what extent it works and it is not specifically intended for us. In terms of those that are specifically for us and those with other isssues, there are the Blindshell from Slovakia which arrived in Africa recently, the Minivision which is from Kapsys in France who produced the touch screen Smartvision range, then there is the Felix from Italy, the Corvus from Slovakia too and the Ray L5 from Israel, not sure which of these are available in North America apart from the Ray L5 as I said in my last post a few weeks ago about Project Ray coming to North America, I'm waiting to hear from Fx Tec if their Pro1 sliding keyboard phone is accessible.
Ricky
-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Brown <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, 10 July 2019 22:32
To: Ricky Lomey <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] SMART PHONES WITH BUTTONS ACCESSIBILITY QUESTION
Hi Ricky,
Unfortunately, there are no smart phones with buttons at the moment, however, if I hear of one, I'll let you and the vicug-l list know.
Harry
On 6/30/2019 2:12 PM, Ricky Lomey wrote:
> Hi
>
> I went to some of our local stores here, not sure if they are actually
> supermarkets, hence brand names might not be relevant to you though I
> can give them if you like and they had phones that have both
> touchscreen and buttons, seems they don't talk at all though the one
> shop said the talking option is only for touchscreens, not the buttons
> and the MTN phone didn't talk either but I found the buttons were
> smallish on the two phones I tried yet manageable enough and reminded
> me of a phone I tried in 2012 that had a strange geographical defect
> etc but just wondering about the smart phones, how limited are the
> buttons in their use as I didn't find anything like an arrow in the
> middle to navigate so not sure if one could do the same with the
> buttons as with the touchscreen or whether the buttons are only for
> use as the phone part, which would obviously not be enough, if they
> could talk, for those wanting to use the other facilities on the phone as opposed to just the phone part.
>
>
> Ricky Lomey
>
>
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