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issue 7 
november-december 2005
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Headlines : world news
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Motorola
phone gets accessible features
home.businesswire.com; Atlanta, U.S.A
Southern LINC Wireless, an Atlanta-based company, announced that it is offering ‘Enhancements for the Visually Impaired’ (E.V.I.) software for Motorola's i355 phone.
The software includes text-to-speech output. Playback of names, numbers and contact types occur as the user scrolls through the handset's phone book. It also plays back the word "calling" as the user makes a call and reads off information such as signal strength, battery level, date and time.
The company also has four hearing-aid compatible phones: the i760, i836, i870 and i850. Each phone complements telephone-compatible hearing aids.
Other World News stories in this issue:
Sight
Savers launches campaign to save Bangladeshi children from cataract
Visually
impaired people gather for a fishing tournament
‘Global
Vision Care Curriculum’ launched on World Sight Day
Legally
blind chefs display culinary skills
Pocket-P.C.
screen reader launched
Assistive
technology fair displays portable electronic Braille display