I do have a blackberry emulator installed and running on my computer and am looking into what can be done with it. The biggest problem I am finding with the black berry though is just the pure lack of applications for it. But they do allow you to download an SDK and also have a plug in for programming it in Visual Studio.
JohnPG search for all of your Jaws scripts at http://www.blindcrawler.com/Also be sure to check out Blind Crawler's Legend of the Green Dragon server at http://www.blindcrawler.com/lotg/
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To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:01 AM Subject: RE: black berry accessibility
I don't know who they asked and yes I gave them feed back but have heard nothing. Ken -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 4:36 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: black berry accessibility Hi Ken,Did they ask any potential users what functions they might need or did theyjust take the paternalistic attitude that they knew what the users would need? Did you give them any feedback? Jim James D Homme, , Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc., james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810 "Never doubt that a thoughtful group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead "Ken Perry" <whistler@blinkso ft.com> To Sent by: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx programmingblind- cc bounce@freelists. org Subject RE: black berry accessibility 11/05/2007 02:14 AM Please respond to programmingblind@ freelists.org This argument will get you in trouble with devices. The Samsung 640 A is accessible out of the box Samsung made it so. Yes I can use it but theydecide what I can use for example the way it reads names is awful. The wayyou have to deal with contacts makes me pray for a rotary phone. Its cute that you can get the description of the backgrounds like I changed my background to a blue J flying over a field but I couldn't email anyonebecause they figure I guess that the screen reader doesn't need to work real good in all fields. I spent more time on the phone going up and down arrowbecause there was no read command for where you are. There didn't seem to be a separate way to tell what time it was or to be able to speed up the speech or slow it down. Its nice of the company to make this phone accessible but maybe there issomething to be said for us making screen readers so that it is more than atoy we need tools. Ken -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pratik Patel Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 2:15 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: black berry accessibilityBecause I refuse to pay for yet another device and another software packagethat provides "special" accessibility. I'm perfectly willing to buy adevice that has accessibility built-in. Frankly, I'm beginning to be a bitannoyed with the argument that blindness is a small market. Pratik Patel Director, IT Access. Director, PeopleTech. The City University of New York -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gabe Vega Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 2:01 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: black berry accessibility you totallydidn't get my message. I am not asking for rim to bring accessibility to us. because i believe the tools are already there. why aren't we doing it for ourselves? On Nov 3, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Steve Britt wrote: Well, first we have to get the hang of that bitter blackberry taste, lol. No, seriously, folks, a big reason is probably that the blind and disabledcommunities are seen as too small a market to be bothered with. Start makingnoise, folks; as the old saying goes, it's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease. __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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