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Accessibility In Mobile Devices And MP3 Players



  • Mat Mirabella
  • Principle Accessibility / Human Factors Specialist
  • Melbourne – Australia
  • Mathew.Mirabella@team.telstra.com


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Overview

  • Mobile Phones and screen reader/enlargers


  • PDA and PDA/Phones and assistive technology


  • Custom Devices and Software


  • MP3 Players – Rockbox and Podzilla
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Mobile Phones and Accessibility

  • Screen readers and enlargers for mobile handsets
    • TALKS and ZOOMS from Nuance
    • MobileSpeak and MobileMagnifier from CodeFactory

  • Work only on Series 60/80 Symbian handsets
    • Most Nokias in the 6600… range
    • The Nokia Communicators, 9000 series

  • Gives access to nearly all phone features
    • Address book, calendar, SMS, settings, browsing
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PDA and PDA/Phone AT

  • Screen readers and enlargers
    • MobileSpeak Pocket and MobileMagnifier Pocket from CodeFactory
    • Pocket HAL from Dolphin Systems

  • Works on Windows Mobile 2003 and Windows Mobile 5.0 devices


  • Therefore available on a large range of devices
    • E.g. I-Mate JasJam – device on Telstra’s NextG™ network

  • Access to pocket Office and IE
    • Jaws-like behaviour in IE
    • Different interactions because of device hardware
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Custom Devices and Software

  • Custom built hardware and software
    • BrailleNote range from HumanWare

  • Custom hardware with compatible  software
    • PacMate range from Freedom Scientific 0 runs Windows CE

  • Adapted devices
    • Maestro – DELL PDA with adaptive software and a hardware button overlay

  • Linux based PDAs


  • Add-ons
    • GPS systems – Trekker for the maestro and a receiver for the BrailleNotes
    • Depends on accessible maps being available
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MP3 Players - rockbox

  • Rockbox – an open source firmware for some MP3 Players
    • Works on many archos, Iriver, Apple Ipods and IAudio players
    • Currently in development – not stable on some platforms
    • Does not yet work on new generation 80GB Ipods or 8Gb IPod Nannos

  • This is a mainstream alternative firmware


  • It provides some accessibility because of
    • Talking menus in the options screens
    • Talking files and folders via audio clips
    • Configurable interface – colours/fonts/sizes etc.

  • A limitation
    • Does not have full TTS capability – requires “talk” clips to speak file and directory names

  • PodZilla – porting Linux to the Ipods
    • Potential to include flite and have TTS capability
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Recap of Overview

  • Mobile Phones and screen reader/enlargers


  • PDA and PDA/Phones and assistive technology


  • Custom Devices and Software


  • MP3 Players – Rockbox and Podzilla
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Some References

  • Nuance - TALKS
  • http://www.nuance.com/TALKS


  • Code Factory - Home
  • http://www.codefactory.es/index2.htm


  • Rockbox - Open Source Jukebox Firmware
  • http://www.rockbox.org


  • Podzilla - wikiPodLinux
  • http://ipodlinux.org/Podzilla


  • Dolphin - Pocket HAL
  • http://www.yourdolphin.com/productdetail.asp?id=7