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You set Manner mode by pressing and holding the Star key for three seconds. The phone will briefly vibrate, and a Vibrate icon appears on the display.
To get out of Manner mode, you press the Star key for three seconds; a beep sounds, and the Vibrate icon disappears. On the Motorola phones, the rocker button on the left side panel is used to adjust the volume, and if you turn it all the way down past the last volume setting, the phone will be in vibrate mode, and it vibrates to indicate that is so. To return to ringing mode, you simply use the up side of the Volume button, and the phone will beep to indicate that it is now in ringing mode, and you can then adjust the volume as you like.
Many of today's cell phones have a GPS feature using global positioning satellites to help emergency services locate you if you make a call, but your local emergency system must be equipped to use the satellite systems. In addition, the Motorola phones that use the Nextel network are able to access driving directions and other advanced GPS capabilities.
However, the speech output does not support these features. The speech output on all these phones tells you your signal strength, so you will know whether or not you are able to make or receive a call.
Also, in another move to improve its phone since we last evaluated it, the manufacturer of the Owasys phone has quieted the once painfully loud tone indicating that you have moved in or out of range of a signal.
The Owasys gives you the ability to adjust the ringer volume by navigating through the accessible menu system to the Ringer Volume setting and choosing the desired volume level. This control is also accessible and a bit quicker on the LG and Motorola i phones, since you simply adjust the volume with the rocker switch on the left side, and a ring tone indicates the changing volume as you increase or decrease it.
There is also a rocker Volume Adjustment switch on the side of the Motorola i, but there is no tone to indicate the volume level as you adjust it.
All these phones speak the number of an incoming caller or the name of the caller if he or she is in your contacts list. For privacy purposes, each phone also has an accessible way to control whether or not that information is spoken through the speaker.
On the LG and Motorola phones, there is no speech output to assist you in setting up speed dialing. But, if you get assistance from a sighted user to associate certain contacts with speed-dial numbers, you simply press a number between 2 and 9 to call the contact associated with that number. There is no specific speed-dialing feature on the Owasys phone, but you can easily use the phone book to call a person in your contacts list.
Because there is no screen on the Owasys, there is nothing to say about the accessibility of a visual display. All users, whether they have vision or not, use the same auditory interface to use this telephone. The labels for the keys are large, and their black color contrasts well with the light blue background on the panel.
Also, as was stated earlier, the keys are easy to identify by touch if your vision is not sufficient to see them. The LG phones have a high-resolution color display, but most of the text and icons that appear are in font sizes of about 10 point, which is too small for most people with low vision to see clearly.
These phones do have a setting to adjust font sizes from normal to large, but the setting only adjusts the size of the digits that appear on screen when you dial a number or enter text into a contact or text message. Glare was not a problem with these phones, and brightness and contrast can be adjusted to improve viewability. The labels on the buttons are too small to accommodate users with low vision, so tactile methods must be used.
Although the size of the display information on the Motorola phones can be adjusted, the information is still too small for people with low vision to read. At the highest setting, the text is still only about a point font size. The phones do have a backlight, and the contrast can be adjusted.
However, although the contrast adjustment helps, larger display information is still necessary. One positive feature for people with low vision is that as you dial, each digit is briefly displayed on the screen in point font, taking up nearly the entire screen.
The buttons on the Motorola phones are backlit and have white labels that contrast well with the buttons, but the labels would require magnification for a person with low vision to read. We hope this review has given you something to work with when choosing a cell phone.
However, if you just want a simpler phone that provides access to some basic but important screen information, then one of these off-the-shelf phones may be for you.
The Owasys 22C provides the most access of any of these phones. However, it is available only on GSM networks. If easily identifiable tactile keys are the most important to you, and you can live with a slightly lower degree of speech-output functionality, then the Motorola phones should interest you.
As was stated earlier, we would never recommend either of the Samsung phones. It is still available online, but you will not be able to find it in your local store.
You could also search for a phone at your local store without any speech output but with easy-to-use tactile buttons for placing and receiving calls. Cingular still has plenty of these phones left, and it is still offering the rebate of the full cost of the TALKS software. The continuing and rapid evolution of the cell phone market is certainly encouraging, but it also necessitates a warning that the information that is provided herein, especially the information on prices in the Product Information section, may not be entirely up to date by the time it reaches you.
It may be helpful to use the contact information provided in the Product Information section of this article, but that can also be a frustrating process because the technicians who answer calls to those phone numbers do not know about the availability or accessibility of their companies' phones. We often get conflicting answers to our questions, and we often have to dig deep to get to the right person.
Adding to the confusion, Nextel and Sprint have recently merged, but they seem to be keeping their individual brand names. Patience is still a virtue when you search for an accessible phone. We have not heard a great deal of positive information about new accessible cell phones that will be offered in the off-the-shelf market.
LG seems to be including its Voice Command functionality on more and more phones from more and more providers, and Alltel just announced that this functionality will be on its new AX However, LG has not upgraded the Voice Command functionality in nearly two years. It is encouraging that Motorola has begun to enter the world of cell phone access.
Motorola is obviously working to fix the bugs in its current systems, and we hope that it will work to expand the speech output to cover more of its phones' functions.
However, we are concerned that the access provided was better on the older i than on the newer i The Owasys 22C phone has been improved since we previously evaluated it, and the manufacturer has told us that it is working on a new phone that is aimed at users with cognitive disabilities.
Stay tuned to AccessWorld for our upcoming evaluations of the latest Symbian phones with the latest versions of the third-party screen-reader and screen-magnifier software products. Note: You must purchase the cell phone and service through Capital Accessibility, not through T-Mobile. Funding for this product evaluation was provided by the Teubert Foundation, Huntington, West Virginia.
We also acknowledge the assistance provided by Marshall University intern Trenton Sturgill. Skip to content. The phone responds, "Please say a name," and you speak the name of a person you have entered into your Contacts application.
Digit dial. The phone prompts you to speak a phone number into the phone and then dials it. Service alerts. The phone tells you how many missed calls, new voicemails, and new text messages you have. Missed calls. The phone tells you how many new missed calls you have.
You can then scroll through the list and hear the phone read you the time, date, and number of each missed call. The phone asks if you would like to read, create, or erase a contact. After you respond, it follows with more prompts to guide you in completing each task. This command toggles Announce Mode on and off. With it on, you are prompted for a command by simply flipping the phone open, and it activates the speaking of caller ID information and some menu items.
This command toggles the hands-free mode on and off. With it on, the speaker phone is on, and as with Announce Mode, you are prompted for a command by flipping the phone open. Time and date. The phone announces the current time and date. Phone status. The phone announces the battery strength and signal strength and indicates if you are roaming and if your global positioning system GPS location feature is active. The phone tells you how many voicemail messages you have and asks if you want to call voicemail.
Motorola i and i We chose to evaluate these two Motorola phones, which are available from Nextel Wireless, because Motorola has developed its iDEN Text-to-Speech TTS Software, which provides access to some of the screen information on these two phones. Caption: The Nextel Motorola i is a large candy-bar-style cell phone.
Caption: The Nextel Motorola i is a small clamshell-style phone. With the iDEN TTS feature, you can hear the following as you use your phone: the number keys you have pressed the names, phone numbers, and types of contacts as you scroll through Contacts the status information on the home screen, including the time and date, if you have voicemail, the battery level, and the signal strength the word "home" when you return to the main screen a prompt indicating that you have started or ended a call the names, phone numbers, and types of contacts as you scroll through recent calls the menu options as you scroll through the main menu only notices, such as "low battery" and "keypad locked" pop-ups, such as "new voicemail" and new text message" The speech also supports adjusting the voice-playback settings of the TTS software to control and adjust how it provides voice feedback.
Software Snafu Before I move on to the other phones and the Results section, the Motorola situation needs a bit more explanation. Caption: The Samsung A is a larger clamshell-style phone. The following commands are available on the D Call a name or number. You say, "Call," followed by a phone number or name of a person in your contacts list. The voice then responds with the confirming question, "Did you say. If you say yes, the call is placed. However, adding names to your contacts is a completely visual process.
Text messaging. You say, "Send text to," followed by a phone number or a name in your contacts list. The voice again asks the confirming question, but the rest of the process of composing and sending the message is not supported by voice output. Look up. You say, "Look up," followed by a name in your contacts list. The voice again responds with the confirming question, but then displays the contact information visually on the screen with no voice support.
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