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Making mobile phones and PDAs accessible to the blind and visually impaired

Making mobile phones and PDAs accessible to the blind and visually impaired. Who Are We?. 10 years of experience in making Technology Accessible .

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Making mobile phones and PDAs accessible to the blind and visually impaired

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  1. Making mobile phones and PDAs accessible to the blind and visually impaired

  2. Who Are We? • 10 years of experience in making Technology Accessible. • Objective: To break down barriers to the accessibility of mobile technology for the blind and visually impaired. Making accessibility means not just opportunity but also flexibility and affordability! • Leading provider of screen readers, screen magnifiers, and Braille interfaces for the widest range of mainstream mobile devices. • Code Factory is the only company providing accessible software compatible with Symbian-based phones as well as Windows Mobile-poweredSmartphones, Pocket PC phones and PDAs.

  3. Mobile device typeSmartphones vs Pocket PCs • Smartphones • Easy to use and very functional mobile phone. • Smaller and lighter. • Keypad style of a mobile phone. • Single-handed use. • Oriented toward personal use. • Windows Mobile and Symbian. • Pocket PCs/ PDA • Effective to work in motion. • Pocket computer, more memory, faster processor. • Phone function. • Higher quality keyboard. • Two-handed use. • Oriented toward professionals. • Touch Screen • More expensive. • Windows Mobile.

  4. Mobile Operating SystemsSymbian vs Windows Mobile • Used in many mainstream devices, most notably in Nokia Smartphones. • The latest version (Symbian 9) offers greater security, but is incompatible with previous versions. • Designed explicitly for the needs of mobile devices, including battery life and stability. • Supports phones from manufacturers such as Nokia, Samsung, Siemens, and Panasonic. • A slimmed-down version of Windows for PC. • Better synchronization with PCs, via ActiveSync. • Similar design to the Windows PC interfaces • Mobile Version of popular Windows applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MSN Messenger…) • More third-party applications available. • Smartphones and Pocket PCs (HTC, HP, Dell…)

  5. Code Factory Product Line 3 product families to improve quality of life: • World-class Screen Readers Powerful full-fledged screen readers with an easy-to-learn command structure, intuitive speech feedback, and Braille support that can be used with or without speech (even by the deafblind). • World-class Screen Magnifiers Flexible full-screen magnification software supporting low- and high-resolution screens that can be used with or without speech feedback • Fun and Practical Mobile Tools Applications developed or supported by Code Factory to enhance the user experience. These are software products that can be used in day-to-day activities but which are designed with the blind person in mind.

  6. DON’T JUST READ IT, HEAR IT! Experience this changing life screen readers and discover how great it is to be more independent with a mainstream mobile device.

  7. Code Factory’s world class screen readers Speech and Braille output can be used at the same time, or independently, to let you perform the following functions of your mobile phone or PDA: • Receive and make a call. • Access call lists and contacts. • Write, send, receive and read SMS, MMS, and emails. • Communicate through instant messaging applications. • Browse the Internet, the file-system browser, applications manager, and connections manager. • Play media files to listen to music. • Manage calendar and task, set reminder alarms. • Create text and voice notes. • Activate voice speed dial and voice command. • Change settings, profiles and ringtones, themes, menus of applications and options. • Perform arithmeticcalculations. • Connect to mobile device accessories like headsets and external keyboards by Bluetooth, WiFi, or Infrared.

  8. Code Factory’s world class screen readers Highlights • Support for the widest range of mainstream device. • Support for 20 languages and variant and availability of more than one voice for each language. • Extensive Braille support (languages, grades and input/ output devices). • Compatibility with a Code Factory’s screen magnifier. • Full access to different built-in applications, and support for 3rd-party programs designed to enhance the functionality of the mobile phone. • Ability to mute ring tone and hear the caller ID. • More than 30 user-configurable options, and the flexibility of being able to easily switch anytime between three user profiles (Beginner, Normal, and Advanced) that can have different settings. • Help mode to learn easily and quickly how to use Mobile Speak applications. • Play accessible games.

  9. Competitive advantages General • Smaller footprint which means less memory is used when running the application, resulting in better stability and responsiveness. • Rapid support for new models of mobile phones. • Compatible with Code Factory’s mobile tools (Games, Color Recognizer, Mobile Daisy Player, Mobile Geo….) • Regular release of public betas to let people check out for themselves what will be in the upcoming new versions, and thereby contribute to the success of the final release. • Affordability considering the frequency of software updates, and the price of getting the product and keeping it up-to-date.

  10. Competitive advantages Braille support • Support for new models of Braille devices is implemented rapidly. • More flexibility with many customizable speech and Braille settings to suit different user preferences. • The only screen readers to support Braille input, especially using Grade 1 (uncontracted) and Grade 2 (contracted) Braille. • Logically assigned Braille commands that feature uniformity among supported Braille devices. • A Braille review cursor that works independently and thus can navigate to different areas of the screen that are otherwise not accessible using the system focus.

  11. Code Factory’s world class screen readers Supported Platforms: • Mobile Speak for Symbian Phones: Symbian versions 6, 7, 8.x, 9.x – Series 60 edition. • Mobile Speak for Windows Mobile Smartphones: Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 (Smartphone edition) • Mobile Speak for Pocket PCs: Windows Mobile 2003 SE, 5.0 and 6.0 (PocketPC and PPC Phone)

  12. Mobile SpeakforSymbianPhones

  13. Mobile Speak for Symbian Phones New features • Support for Symbian 9 Web browser. • Support for Nokia High Quality built-in text-to-speech. • Support for new and responsive HQ Loquendo voices on Symbian 9. • Support for new High Quality Acapela voices. • Speech and Braille support for Wayfinder Access V2.0. • Full translations for 10 new languages: due to our unique support of the Nokia voices built into Symbian third edition phones, Mobile Speak can now speak Hindi, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Serbian, Slovak, Tagalog, Romanian, Urdu and Indonesian. • Support for the most recent Nokia phones based on Symbian 9.2: N95, N76, E90, 5700, 6290, 6110 Navigator, N81, N82, 6121, N95 8GB…

  14. Mobile Speak for Windows Mobile Smartphones& Mobile Speak for Pocket PCs

  15. Windows Mobile PlatformNew features • New Centered Licensing system which allows free and unlimited transfer of licenses between devices, activation of devices anytime and anywhere using an internet connection or SMS, use of a backup phone, and much more • Built-in application for reading Braille formatted (BRF) files with speech, Braille or both, as well as a Bookshare.org unpacking utility. • New and improved versions of high-quality TTS voices from Loquendo. • Unique memory and processor optimizations that resulted in greater stability, responsiveness and battery life. • Support for Windows Mobile 6.0 Office (Word, Excel PowerPoint) and Live Messenger. • Support for third-party applications such as Microsoft Voice Command, AvantGo, Skype, Audible Player & Audible Air, Sprite Backup Utility, SlovoEd Multilingual Dictionaries… • Support for more WM6 devices including the Motorola Q9M and Q9H, AT&T Pantech Duo and Samsung Blackjack II, HTC S630/Cavalier, HP iPAQ 500 Voice Messenger series, HTC Tytn II, HTC Touch, HTC Touch Dual, HTC Mogul, 02 Xda Atom Life.

  16. Better screen visibility, more user flexibility. Enlarge your horizons with Mobile Magnifier software.

  17. Code Factory’s world class screen magnifiers Unique features include: • Magnification levels from 1.25x to 16x. • Font smoothing for easier readability. • Three different layouts offering a full-screen, split, and distributed view. • Several color schemes including inverted color. • Auto-scroll function with configurable speed levels. • Easy cursor tracking and customizable cursor properties. • Borders and other screen elements with configurable size and color. • Shortcuts to access the most common magnifier functions.

  18. Code Factory’s world class screen magnifiers • Supported Platforms: • Mobile Magnifier for Symbian Phones: Symbian versions 6, 7, 8.x, 9.x – Series 60 edition. • Mobile Magnifier for Windows Mobile Smartphones: Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 (Smartphone edition) • Mobile Magnifier for Pocket PCs: Windows Mobile 2003 SE, 5.0 and 6.0 (PocketPC and PPC Phone)

  19. Code Factory’s Mobile Tool

  20. GPS solutions with Code Factory software applications Mobile Geo: • New GPS satellite navigation application for the blind. • Designed to work on more than 300 Windows Mobile-powered devices. • Powered by GPS and mapping technology from the Sendero Group. • Available with map data and POI files for over 20 different countries. • With Mobile Geo, you can pinpoint your location, learn about the points of interest (POIs) in your immediate vicinity, plan a route between specified points of origin and destination, and get instructions on maneuvers to make as well as information about waypoints along a route that you are following.

  21. GPS solutions with Code Factory software applications Highlights of Wayfinder Access include: • Information provided for both pedestrian and vehicular navigation. • A database of 20 million POI. • Online maps that are regularly updated. • "Where am I?" feature. • "What is in my surrounding?" feature. • “Vicinity View” feature that allows you to hear audible references for an area with a scope that you can later adjust based on the radius of the scanned vicinity. • Feedback on points of Interest (POI), crossings or favorites that can be restricted, prioritized, and presented according to their distance from your location.

  22. Reading On the Go Mobile Daisy Player • Features of Mobile Daisy Player 1.0 : • Support for text-only, audio-only, or mixed-mode books • Quick and easy navigation to any point in the book • Ability to set bookmarks to favorite places in the content • Auto-bookmark and resume to last point in the book • Customizable TTS support via Mobile Speak • Improvements in Mobile Daisy Player 2.0: • Simplified install allows you to copy the book contents directly to the memory card with no intermediate steps or external programs • Support for DAISY 2.0 and 3.0 formats, allowing access to a wider variety of content and providers • Variable playback speed allows audio content to be reproduced faster or slower without changing pitch • More TTS options than ever before, from a wide range of speech providers • Independent licensing allows use with or without Mobile Speak

  23. Reading On the Go Braille Reader for Bookshare and BRF Files Starting with version 2.0, Mobile Speak for Windows Mobile Smartphones and Mobile Speak for Pocket PCs include a Braille Reader application that handles Braille formatted (BRF) documents, and can unpack Bookshare (BKS) files from Bookshare.org. Product features include: • BRF files available from Bookshare.org, the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in the United States, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind in Canada, and the International Braille Research Center are supported. • A Bookshare.org Unpack Utility is already built-in, making it unnecessary to install and run a separate application just to decompress Bookshare files. • All text navigation commands can be used inside a BRF file: Read by character, word, line, sentence, paragraph, and continuously from the top of the file or the current cursor position. • Includes an option to search for all supported file formats and present them in a list where user can press Enter on the file he wishes to read next. • The cursor position in a BRF document is remembered when the file is closed so that user can continue reading where he left off when the file is reopened.

  24. New ServicesKeep yourself informed! Subscribe to our news services at http://www.codefactory.es/en/services.asp Newsletter Press Release Stay tuned SMS service RSS feed o send an email to marketing@codefactory.es

  25. Code Factory Rambla d’Egara, 148, 2-2 – 08221 Terrassa (Barcelona) SPAIN +34 93 733 70 66 info@codefactory.es www.codefactory.es

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