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Article: The Daily Record Business News Briefs: September 15, 2009
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- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
- Article date:
- September 15, 2009
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Blind in touch
The National Federation of the Blind, of Baltimore, the nation's
oldest and largest organization of blind people, and
telecommunications giant Motorola Inc., announced an agreement to
promote technologies that improve the accessibility of cell phones
to blind consumers. Starting next year, certain Motorola cell phones
will provide verbal readouts of information, such as the time and
date, battery level, signal strength, user's phone number, caller ID
information for incoming calls, missed and received calls, and voice
mail alerts. Blind users will also be given verbal readouts and
voice-command features for ring-tone status, inputting and accessing
contacts and various other ...