Nokia’s Symbian is the most popular mobile Operating System among the blind people around the world. Because, Screen reader applications like Talks and Mobile speak can be installed on it & used with out barriers. Last year Nokia had announced the stopping of Symbian phones. Now the time to move to other platforms like Android, iPhone or blackberry. Both these 3 have its on accessibility features. Prateek Agarwal a blind man from India is going to conduct a Webcast on Android phones and their accessibility in his website on Saturday. Read below for more details in prateek’s words.
“The android operating system has built a massive craze and madness
amongst the people over a few months. Low cost, incredibly rich
features, wonderful apps in the android market, and plenty of
options to make a choice are just some of the reason why android has
received such a huge attention and appreciation.
In parallel to android’s vast popularity, nokia is rapidly reducing
its simbian based phones, which has undoubtedly been the most
popular option amongst blind and visually impaired users from many
years.
This, has rung the bell amongst the blind community that if not
simbian, then what?
While there’s a wind of android everywhere, its only logical that
blind and visually impaired users
Also flow in the breeze an feel the power of android, but is this
really possible?
Do the android based phones provide enough accessibility that can
allow people with blindness to use this platform?
How accessible android is?
Which phones are available to use from blindness perspective?
What all task a blind person can perform with an android phone?
There are countless such questions spinning in the minds of many, and
to pull their answers, I’ve decided to conduct a live audio webcast
about android phones and their accessibility, so that all the above
and many other issues can be discussed and sorted out live.
Moreover, you can ask your questions live via text chat, or even the
live calls through skype.
Please Read the below details carefully to know about how can you
be a part of this exciting venture.
Topics to be covered:
Though its hard to define the topics at this moment, but we hope to
cover at least the following topics in the webcast:
1. what is android?
2. android vs simbian.
3. important things to keep in mind when you have to buy an android phone.
4. live demonstration of some of the most basic operations that you
can perform with an android phone.
5. discussion about interesting and accessible apps.
6. the new, ice cream sandwitch and accessibility.
7. android vs I phone accessibility.
8. list of phones currently available in the market which are good
from blindness perspective.
9. answers of the questions found on emails during the week.
10. live chats, calls and feedback.
When:
Saturday, 21st of January 2012, from 9:30 pm onwards.
Where:
At
www.prateekagarwal.webs.com
how to listen:
the webcast can be heard live through my website available at
www.prateekagarwal.webs.com
here, choose “webcast” link from the home page, and on the next page,
choose the link that says “listen live”.
By clicking this link, you should be able to listen the webcast live.
Listening on the mobile phones:
You can listen the webcast on your mobile phone as well by following
the same method,
just make sure to use a relatively faster internet connection.
Please note that the live broadcasting will start from 8:30 PM
onwards on saturday the 21st, so that you can test the system well
and report if there are any errors/interruptions.
How can you participate:
This is important.
If you would like to participate live in the webcast, you can
certainly do so. You can send your text chat, or even call on skype
which can be heard live to all the listeners.
Just add the following ID from your skype application:
Live_webcast
How can you report the errors:
If you find any problem during the webcast, please report the errors on
Prateekagarwal99@gmail.com
Also, write me on the same ID for any additional concern/query/feedback.”
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