Re: Unrecovery of the iPod pushing kind

Phil Armstrong <phil-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I believe some partially sighted people are using rockbox on suitable
hardware for precisely this reason. It has decent voice menu support which
the iPod singluarly lacks (IIRC).

See, e.g., this:

http://ipod.hackaday.com/2006/05/12/giant-ipod-remote-for-the-visually-impaired/

The name is probably not terribly familiar to many, but the late "Professor"
Peter Strangman was *heavily* into vision and accessibility research. I
helped him a little bit with his research back in 1996 as I would appear to
be a protanope. He was almost certainly One Of Us but in a different field.

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