Mobile Twitter for the visually impaired?
October 9, 2011 11:12 PM Subscribe
I'm looking for a phone and software that would make sense if you were using Twitter and if you were blind.
The intended use is for walking down the street noticing things, having a hand in a warm pocket with a phone in it, and typing on the phone in such a way that you didn't have to see the screen.
I'm presuming that I have an earpiece of some kind.
The "blind typing on a keyboard" seems like a doable challenge, even on a touch screen. Would you have a keyboard with easy to find buttons, or with a gesture interface, or even with some kind of morse code input? All plausible.
For getting an intelligible stream of audio from Twitter, I found Qwitter, a Windows application that does smart things. Tweety has sample code on Android that works with that phone's text-to-speech system.
I'm not actually visually impaired, so I start with some kind of disadvantage, not knowing what's already been done.
The intended use is for walking down the street noticing things, having a hand in a warm pocket with a phone in it, and typing on the phone in such a way that you didn't have to see the screen.
I'm presuming that I have an earpiece of some kind.
The "blind typing on a keyboard" seems like a doable challenge, even on a touch screen. Would you have a keyboard with easy to find buttons, or with a gesture interface, or even with some kind of morse code input? All plausible.
For getting an intelligible stream of audio from Twitter, I found Qwitter, a Windows application that does smart things. Tweety has sample code on Android that works with that phone's text-to-speech system.
I'm not actually visually impaired, so I start with some kind of disadvantage, not knowing what's already been done.
Apple is going to do a lot with Twitter integration in iOS 5, and together with Siri I guess you can't do better than an iPhone 4s.
posted by DreamerFi at 4:20 AM on October 10, 2011
posted by DreamerFi at 4:20 AM on October 10, 2011
'nthing an iPhone, a lot of thought has gone into the interface:
- An iPhone helps the blind identify currency
- A blind user explains why he loves the iPhone
- Voiceover + Color identifier help's the blind "see" (Another example)
posted by samsara at 5:09 AM on October 10, 2011
- An iPhone helps the blind identify currency
- A blind user explains why he loves the iPhone
- Voiceover + Color identifier help's the blind "see" (Another example)
posted by samsara at 5:09 AM on October 10, 2011
I noticed that the Siri video featured a blind woman prominently. I read somewhere today that Google voice commands can do this so ostensibly any android phone.
posted by chinabound at 7:17 AM on October 10, 2011
posted by chinabound at 7:17 AM on October 10, 2011
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posted by Brent Parker at 12:32 AM on October 10, 2011