Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are gradually becoming important artifacts for people with disabilities (PWDs). This paper investigates the use of mobile phones in the daily activities of PWDs in sub-Saharan Africa. The study argues that mobile phone use empowers PWDs, but ...
The phone, through simplicity in its form, is perfect for people with disabilities. My visually impaired son has no issues whatsoever. Kamila -Google review 2024-03-06 The purchased phone is performing very well. My husband is very pleased with the gift. A quick transaction without any issues...
These features are also convenient for people without physical disabilities. This paper describes the steps taken to implement universal design of the Raku Raku PHONE and its hardware, software, and audio features as actual examples of universal design. 2. Steps to implement universal design of ...
This potential market for cell phones and other electronic technologies makes it important for these devices to be accessible to people with disabilities. In the United States, there is an additional reason for cell phone manufacturers to be concerned about accessibility—the US Telecommunications Act ...
Citizen science as a tool for conservation in residential ecosystems Ecol. Soc., 12 (2) (2007), p. 11 CrossrefGoogle Scholar Craig et al., 2019 L. Craig, N. Craig, E. Calgaro, D. Dominey-Howes, K. Johnson People with disabilities: Becoming agents of change in Disaster Risk Reduction...
Moving forward, researchers will conduct user studies with people without disabilities, then people with dementia. Reference: “Where is My Phone?: Towards Developing an Episodic Memory Model for Companion Robots to Track Users’ Salient Objects” by Juhi Shah, Ali Ayub, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv an...
spendy phone systems with desktop Skype clients, grandparents are FaceTiming their families instead of calling them, and video chat is a boon for people with hearing disabilities. Vonage just rolled outVonage Mobile, in a big move to compete with Skype, and Dell just launched a phone-number-at...
Samsung phones have some features to help people living with disabilities use their products with ease. “The key areas that have helped visually impaired persons are the screen reader and visibility enhancement feature found in Samsung devices. For visually impaired persons, the sound ...
Zhang’s research, Smartphone-Based Gaze Gesture Communication for People with Motor Disabilities, is set to be presented at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in May. (265) 1.According to the passage, people with ALS can communicate with others by ___. A.eye contact B....
Mobile phones are becoming increasingly popular and are already the first access technology to information and communication. However, people with disabilities have to face a lot of barriers when using this kind of technology. This paper presents an Accessible Contact Manager and a Real Time Text ap...