Submitted by David Goodwin on 8 October, 2012 - 04:58.
When the Bureau of Engraving and Printing launched their EyeNote app last year, they said that "more than 100,000 blind and visually impaired individuals could currently own an Apple iPhone".
Unfortunately they didn't give a source for this figure, and the use of the word 'could' suggests that it might have been little more than a best guess.
The figure would appear not to include other iOS devices and presumably refers only to the USA.
I'm not aware of any more up-to-date figures, or ones that are global or include all iOS devices.
Submitted by i phone princess on 8 October, 2012 - 15:12.
I don't know the exact amount of blind people that use the i phone but majority of them do. I became a i phone user about 6 months ago and i love it. If a blind person is not a i phone user by now they certainly will get the message because it is spreading. There are about 15 blind people at my job who are i phone users and others that are thinking about switching to the i phone from other phones.
From 2007 to 2012! I've been using Nokia phones with Talks and Mobile Speak. Having had my first iPhone which is the iPhone 4S! I wouldn't go back to any other phone and that includes Android as I had a brief spell with Android 2.3 with the HTC Cha Cha. Nearly everyone I know has an iPhone of some description and the UK Talks support list has hardly any traffic because of the volumes of people switching to the iPhone. In my City! There are around 1400 visually impaired or blind people and I would say that half of them will have an iPhone. A propotion of those have gone over to Android. So on the iPhone count! It's looking rather healthy. I hope this is getting back to Apple as they will modify Voiceover to work better in some situations.
#1 No firm numbers
When the Bureau of Engraving and Printing launched their EyeNote app last year, they said that "more than 100,000 blind and visually impaired individuals could currently own an Apple iPhone".
Unfortunately they didn't give a source for this figure, and the use of the word 'could' suggests that it might have been little more than a best guess.
The figure would appear not to include other iOS devices and presumably refers only to the USA.
I'm not aware of any more up-to-date figures, or ones that are global or include all iOS devices.
#2 blind i phone users
I don't know the exact amount of blind people that use the i phone but majority of them do. I became a i phone user about 6 months ago and i love it. If a blind person is not a i phone user by now they certainly will get the message because it is spreading. There are about 15 blind people at my job who are i phone users and others that are thinking about switching to the i phone from other phones.
#3 From 2007 to 2012! I've been
From 2007 to 2012! I've been using Nokia phones with Talks and Mobile Speak. Having had my first iPhone which is the iPhone 4S! I wouldn't go back to any other phone and that includes Android as I had a brief spell with Android 2.3 with the HTC Cha Cha. Nearly everyone I know has an iPhone of some description and the UK Talks support list has hardly any traffic because of the volumes of people switching to the iPhone. In my City! There are around 1400 visually impaired or blind people and I would say that half of them will have an iPhone. A propotion of those have gone over to Android. So on the iPhone count! It's looking rather healthy. I hope this is getting back to Apple as they will modify Voiceover to work better in some situations.