invisual – a tactile Silicone case for the Apple iPhone
used with an app store application, designed in mind, for the Blind and the Visually Impaired, that uses special accessibility functions, ex: text-to-speech features and moon type tactile alphabet keyboard. This simple silicon case, covers all the Apple iPhone device, and with the help of the engraved bas-relief icons, keyboard and multi-touch scrolls, it gives fully access to the interface beneath.
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Great concept. Apple has really neglected accessibility in their products.
I saw this highlighted at Yanko Design (http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/12/01/this-iphone-is-touchier-than-most/#comment-54430). As a legally blind iPod Touch user, I am eager to hear more about this product. I am posting about it on my blog right now. Where/when will it be available? Which app does it work wtih? Thanks.
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As someone that has a visual impairment and working in the Lighthouse for the blind, This would be very useful. We have clients ask all the time if theres a way to get the iphone feel better. Unfortunately sticking dots to a screen just don’t cut it. This would be a god send.
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[...] TIPS: Apple har i senere tid gjort en innsats for å bedre anvendeligheten av sine produkter for funksjonshemmede, deriblandt talestyrte menyer i nye iPod og i iTunes. Det har ikke vært løsninger tilgjengelige for universell brukbarhet for synshemmede for iPhone, derimot. Men med et spesielt program og et silikon-omslag så er plutselig telefonen blitt vesentlig mer anvendelig for blinde og svaksynte. Programmet gjør nytte av telefonens multi-touch funsjoner, og har en rekke ikoner sentralt plassert for adgang til telefon-funksjon, SMS, internett, værtjenesten, epost, kart, kalkulatoren, kontakter og iPod-funksjonen. I tillegg er silikon-trekket – kalt invisual – utformet som et spesielt tastatur. Et såkalt Moon-tastatur, som brukes til bokstav- og fraseinput. Dette tegnspråket har fordelen av at det er enklere å lære i voksen alder. Nå er det selvfølgelig kun brukere med spesifikke behov som vil dra nytte av denne løsningen, men på en måte så er det noe veldig fascinerende over dette – både når det gjelder den innovative bruken av Apples (innovative) berørings-sensitive skjerm- og menysystem, men også i det visuelle aspektet og selve utformingen av silikon-omslaget. Det kan virke som om god design og et enkelt brukergrensesnitt er gode løsninger for alle. Les mer om invisual her. [...]
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I never think how can blind people use screen control products like iphone or ipod.
This is the best sample of “Design for human”
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With a blind wife and several blind friends, I can’t decide how stupid this is, since you would have to have talking software to know what what going on underneath and a sighted person picking it up couldn’t help, not being able to see the screen.
This web site doesn’t help the sighted either with the comments being printed in tiny gray print on black so as to be almost unreadable.
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Hi,
I have recently sustained severe damage to my eyes in an accident and have been an iphone user since it first launched.
After getting the fatal news, even more fatal too me as i worked as a 3d artist/manager in a production studio before the incident, i have been fumbling with the unlock slider the phone for a while to find solutions to my dark complex.
Besides finding a few tricks to which i can use the phone for dialing (i’ve stuck a braille dot sticker to where an app called ispeak is located). i’ve been having thoughts of using in the end a nokia or other phone which includes a screen reader. But the feel of the iphone on my palm is so familiar and dear to me, i’ve continued to use my home made contraption and neglected the texting thing altogether.
Now that i’ve found this concept on the web, ii’d love to test it out and if it does in fact enter production, please let me know as i think is a great step forward for the blind community at large which probably simpers and fumbles with the unlock slider in unison.
Hoping that i will find this cool design innovation at my apple store soon@!
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I think this product looks amazing. Is it available to purchase yet? If so where how much and how?
Kindest Regards
Megan
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