Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Accessibility challenges with mobile phones

What mobile phone is the most accessible phone? I think the question really is Which mobile phones are the most accessible? Personally I am tired 5 or 6 different devices and found them all use in different ways. Blackberry's are by far my favorite but only the ones with a keyboard. Android is the os that i am using now on my motorola droid from the verizon wireless network. The moto Droid has a great screen and keyboard but is lacking spell check, which was a life saver on my blackberry. The motorola droid makes up for the lack of spell check with voice dictation and with predictive text on the screen keyboards. In fact most of this posting I wrote with the voice dictation feature on the motorola droid. The voice dictation is both faster than typing and more accurate if you have difficulty with spelling but you able to verbalize what you intend to write.

What cellphones do you find most accessible?

Has anyone found a good book reader for cellphone?

how to use google as a spell checker

Have you ever wanted to spell somethine and you weren't even sure where to start? Try typing a sentence in to Google when using the your guess of that word. Google will guess what you were trying to write in its "did you mean?_______________" field. Check for clues to tell if google was right by checking the results it pull up with your search. Even if you make a mistake its likely that it will be a mistake that many people make. Also it your errors in writing could be also be more then spelling so don't be shy to add "is this the right way to spell____________" or "is this the right way to say_____________".

Useing Google as a spell checker can be a useful to people learning written language as an adult. If you know what you want to say but don't know how to write well.