The Mobile Manufacturers Forum has a new web site devoted to Mobile Accessibility.
The Global Accessibility Reporting Initiative (GARI) project was developed to provide a central information source to learn about accessibility in mobile devices.
On this website you can learn about the various features that a phone may have and link through to manufacturers websites for specific information on particular models.
As part of the GARI project all phones released by participating manufacturers after the 1 October 2008 will have a GARI template available for them providing specific information on the accessibility features that a particular model offers. A sample of this template is available here. This website is designed to complement this template by explaining some of those features in more detail and to help learn how to use them.
The inaccessibility of cell phones has always been an issue with me. I am glad to see these folks start to take this issue more seriously. The web site is not fully developed, but has explanations of different cell phone features and styles, features to look for by type of disability and a lists of phones with accessibility features. Many of this blogs readers come here to find out more about accessible phones, in particular in search of high contrast, easy to read ones. Hopefully this site and the GARI porject will evolve into a contact point for improving mobile accessibility.
Read more about iPhone accessibility here.
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