Telephones - What features do disabled people need?
Smart phone - auto adjust.

 

Visual impairment - moderate.

Visual impairment - severe.

Deafness.

  Deaf-blindness.

Speech impairment - moderate.

Speech impairment - severe.

Cognitive impairment.

Image of a smart phone.

Illustration of a smart card.

 


The technology that is developing around smart cards enables a user to store their own preferences on the memory chip of a smart card. Smart card based telephones would allow a user's card to instruct the telephone to make specific adjustments. This could be adjustments to sound quality, volume, typeface sizes, language preferences and many of the other features shown in this Website.

 

Additional cost - high.

 

 

 

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