[gui-talk] Fwd: Phones coming standard with braille, well... sort of.

[Steve Pattison]

 From:    the Desk of Mr. Malcolm nemoy.malcolm at gmail.com
 To:      Vip-l at lists.pacific.net.au

NOKIA PAVES THE WAY FOR THE BLIND TO READ SMS
Mumbai, September 22, 2009
DNA
 
Although mobile phones have been a great communicating aid for the
blind, there was one aspect in which they were quite useless. Text
messaging.
 
But now, ~, known for their cutting-edge software research, Nokia have
come up with a cell phone version of Braille, the script the visually impaired
can understand.
 
Called Nokia Braille Reader, the application -- released on September
17 -- was developed in collaboration with the Finnish Federation of the
Visually Impaired and Tampere University.
 
The application is available for the Nokia N97, 5800 XpressMusic, N97
mini, 5530, 5230 and X6 models. What it does is to transform an SMS
into a set of vibrations corresponding with the symbols of the Braille
script. The symbols can be understood by the strength of the
vibration.

Regards Steve
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