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Shopping for an Android phone involves some research. While the Android OS has a great deal of native accessibility, some features are not yet ready , the touch screen being the most obvious example. Moreover, some manufacturers customize the user interface (UI), interfering with the screen reader’s ability to do its job. The Right Kind of Phone When shopping for a phone, users must consider the following: 1. A physical keyboard is recommended. The soft keyboard on the screen is natively inaccessible because keys cannot be touched without also being activated. Three accessible virtual keyboards are now available for people who are blind or visually impaired. While all three work well, typing with them requires some practice, goes slowly, and tends toward more errors than typing on a physical keyboard, so their use seems more appropriate to shorter writing tasks, like searches, than longer ones, like emails. Nevertheless, some users are comfortable with them. Other users pair Bluetooth ...

Android is Google's smartphone operating system, with touch-screen interface and many built-in accessibility features. What it does is pack a mini computer into a cell phone. Users can browse the web, chat, check out YouTube videos, get GPS information, keep up with Face Book and Twitter, listen to music, and send and receive email, as well as send text messages and make and receive phone calls. What it isn't is a specific phone. It’s an operating system used by many different devices, all of them having a touch screen with soft buttons. The similarities end there, however. Some Android phones have physical typing keyboards for inputting information; others do not. Some have a directional pad (d-pad) for users to arrow around the screen; others have a trackball for scrolling; still others have neither. Some have a handful of physical buttons; others, only one or two. For people who are blind and visually impaired, what Android offers is out-of-the-box accessibility in a smartph...