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Best cell phone for blind people? (self.Blind)
submitted 8y ago by coolestnameavailable
What is the best smartphone slash OS for blind individuals?
Marconius 4 points
I highly recommend the iPhone. The dictation, voiceover, and low vision accessibility features are top notch and well-designed. Most of the applications available for the iPhone are accessible, and more and more of them are working on making thiers fully integrated with voiceover functionality.
thatsnotgneiss 3 points
I am not totally blind, but I have low vision. I've had a lot of different phones, but I always come back to the iPhone. The main reason is the accessibility settings (voiceover especially) and the fact that there is a whole website called AppleVis that is devoted to low vision and blind Apple device users.
http://www.applevis.com/apps/ios-apps-for-blind-and-vision-impaired
http://www.applevis.com/apps/ios-apps-for-blind-and-vision-impaired
typicallydownvoted 1 points
it seems to me that android has a very similar thing to voiceover - is it not good?
thatsnotgneiss 1 points
Android's can be more finicky and it is not as integrated into the system. I've had both, and I much prefer the IOS voiceover.
DnBDeafNBlind 3 points
Hmmm, tricky since phones are touchscreens now. Kinda miss the old keypads as I could tell you what button was what in my pocket but that's what I'd recommend first, an "older" phone.
Nighthawk321 1 points
iPhone for sure. Voice over blows any other phone out of the water.
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