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The present state and future needs of visually impaired mobile phone users were surveyed. The results showed that many visually impaired users, even print enabled persons, were making use of speech output to e-mail and to access the Internet, and, accordingly, improvements of speech output were requested. Additionally, GPS navigation was on the high priority request list.
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AFB TECH Evaluates Cell Phones, American Foundation for the Blind, http://www.afb.org
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Watanabe, T., Miyagi, M., Minatani, K., Nagaoka, H. (2008). A Survey on the Use of Mobile Phones by Visually Impaired Persons in Japan. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5105. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_162
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