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"Assessing apps for the blind"

"iPhone accessibility with VoiceOver This page contains links to information about using the iPhone 3GS with its built-in screen reader VoiceOver, a huge step for eyes-free mobile accessibility. This is a wiki, please feel free to add more links and content. Don't know how?"

Representative Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, who wrote recently enacted legislation that will require mobile devices to be more accessible to users with disabilities, said approximately three-fourths of communications and video devices need to be adapted for blind and deaf people. "Apple," he said in a statement, "is an outlier when it comes to devices that are accessible out of the box."

Android shell for low vision/blind users

The iPhone 3GS, which has no physical keys at all, is one of the easiest smartphones in the world for a blind person to use, thanks to an app called VoiceOver.