How to Find a Mobile Phone for Visually Impaired

Posted on September 22, 2010
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Present day mobile phones are packed with incredible collection of gadgetry features like high quality camera, music players, voice recorders, internet options and so on. These are all good I there own places; but what about the needs of people with impaired vision, hearing and such other disabilities?
Thankfully, we do have some cellular phone producers who manufacture phones catering to the need of such people. Especially for people who are visually challenged, there are certain phones which they can use without much difficulty.
There are specific handsets that are equipped with a very special feature called screen reader. This software eliminates the problem of reading text and navigating the phone. Therefore, with such software using a sleek new age phone isn’t a problem at all.
Most phones today have numbers embossed on the keys. This helps a visually impaired person make out the numbers on the keypad only by touching the buttons.
There are phones with voice control as well. Such handsets can be operated with voice commands and least key-presses. Also, programming the commands isn’t that difficult either.
People with partial vision can go for phones that are equipped with screen magnifiers. Such software helps magnifying letters and images which are otherwise not very visible to them. These magnifiers offer magnifications of about 2x or more.
There are some phones with few buttons and no screen, for people who have severely impaired eyesight. This is to make these devices easily usable for their target consumers.
So to conclude, you may not find all these features in one handset. In case you don’t, then make sure you figure out what functions would you need the most and pick a handset with the right combination of features. Doing so will only make, the user’s phone experience a present one.
Martin Elmer is the editor of Mobil ældre. Here you can also read about Mobil til svagtseende.