Strategies
Microsoft Windows Mobile
7 Keywords: Mobile Phones, Accessibility, Deaf, Dexterity, Blind, Partially Sighted, Visually Impaired
Microsoft Windows Mobile is used on many Smart Phones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). The collection of software includes a cut down version of Microsoft Office suite with Word, Excel and PowerPoint plus Outlook for e-mail. Internet Explorer can be used for surfing the web and font sizes in some of the programs can be enlarged but not all aspects of the applications are enhanced in the same way. Windows Mobile software can be used with Smart Hal screen reader or Code Factory Mobile Speak and Magnifier
Links
- Accessible mobile phones - RNIB guide
Information about mobile phones that are accessible to blind or partially sighted people from the RNIB.
- RNID factsheet on mobile phones - information for deaf people
Digital mobile and cordless phones may interfere with hearing aids. So what can you do? In his last article for RNID, James Brown sounds out the alternatives.
- Choosing a mobile phone - money matters!
moneysupermarket.com has compiled a guide to help make the mobile phone choices easier when it comes to making the funds stetch further.
- Tweaks2K2 for Windows mobile
Tweaks 2K2 allows Windows mobile users to change their system fonts and many other aspects of this operating system - there is a free Lite version with 40 hacks.
- Mobile & handheld usability testing - why it matters
Webcredible carry out evaluations on mobile phones and web sites etc but also offer advice through their resource pages.
- Products for listening to a mobile phone with a hearing aid.
Connevans offer products that help hearing aid users listen to mobile phones.
- Mobile Phones accessibility overview
Tiresias.org have an overview of the issues that may arise when using a mobile phone if dexterity, hearing or vision are impaired. They offer links to accessible mobile phones and access software.
