New screen reader application provides blind and visually impaired customers with a solution to more easily access BlackBerry smartphones
Longueuil, QC, Canada and Barcelona, Spain - HumanWare, the global leader in assistive technologies for the print disabled, and Code Factory, maker of Mobile Speak, the award winning mobile screen readers technology, announced today that Oratio, a new screen reader application, Oratio is now available for select BlackBerry® smartphones. The new Oratio screen reader is an innovative software application from HumanWare that converts the information presented visually on the BlackBerry smartphone screen into speech output and enables customers with visual impairments to more easily access and operate their BlackBerry smartphone.
“We are excited to launch the Oratio application for BlackBerry smartphones for customers with visual impairments,” said Gilles Pepin, CEO of HumanWare, “This new and exciting product will help enable print disabled customers stay in touch and connected with what is important to them in today’s fast moving world.”
“We are proud to have worked closely with HumanWare and Research In Motion to deliver a screen reader application that is optimized to work with BlackBerry smartphones,” explained Eduard Sánchez, Code Factoy’s CEO. “This application offers a perfect symbiosis between the screen reader and the user's BlackBerry smartphone.”“RIM worked closely with HumanWare and Code Factory in the development of this innovative and important BlackBerry app for visually impaired customers. We are very pleased that Oratio is now available in the market,” said Tyler Lessard, VP Global Alliances & Developer Relations, Research In Motion.
About Oratio
Screen reader software application based on the award-winning Mobile Speak screen reader software application
Provides customers with an intuitive speech interface that reads aloud the information displayed visually on the BlackBerry smartphone screen
Supports BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphones
Available in US English, with upcoming support for other languages
Available for download at www.Oratio4bb.com
For more information about Oratio, visit www.humanware.com/oratio
About HumanWare
HumanWare (www.humanware.com) is the global leader in assistive technologies for the print disabled. HumanWare provides products to people who are blind or have low vision and students with learning disabilities. HumanWare offers a collection of innovative products, including BrailleNote, the leading productivity device for the blind in education, business and for personal use; the Victor Reader product line, the world's leading digital audiobook players; the SmartView family of handheld and desktop electronic magnifiers; and myReader2, HumanWare's unique "auto-reader". For more information about HumanWare, visit www.humanware.com
About Code Factory
Code Factory is the leading provider of screen readers, screen magnifiers, and Braille interfaces for the widest range of mainstream mobile devices. Our mission is to break down barriers to the accessibility of mobile technology for the blind and visually impaired. Our accessible solutions are used in more than 50 countries and 30 languages. Among Code Factory's customers are well known organizations for the blind such as ONCE, and carriers such as AT&T, Bouygues Telecom, SFR, and Vodafone. To learn more about Code Factory, visit http://www.codefactory.es
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