Wireless for all Yes, we can

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Wireless for all? Yes, we can!
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Panelists

• Jenifer Simpson
• Senior Director
• Telecommunications Technology Policy
• American Association of People with Disabilities
• Ed Price
• Research Director
• Interactive Media Technology Center
• Georgia Tech
• Jim Mueller
• Project Director
• Wireless RERC

• David Dougall
• Accessibility Program Manager
• Research In Motion (RIM)
• Jerome Arnaud
• President CEO Doro AB
• CEO Doro France
• Jane Jackson
• Associate Chief
• Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Federal
  Communications Commission

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Wireless RERC partners
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Our missions

• Promote access to wireless technology by people
  with disabilities
• Encourage universal design of wireless products
  and services

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Why are we here?
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User-centered research

• Survey of User Needs
• 1600 people with disabilities
• Consumer Advisory Network
• 900 people with disabilities

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Consumers help us dig deeper

• Consumer Advisory Network
• Community of users to test products, explore
  wireless issues, and share knowledge and
  experience with each other

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iPod Touch testing

• Consumer Advisors
• with low vision or manual limitations

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Exploring touchscreens further

• Devices
• Blackberry Storm
• HTC Touch HD
• iPhone
• Consumer Advisors diverse in age with cognitive,
  manual, and/or visual limitations

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More to come

• Please contact
• John Morris, Program Mgr.
• Wireless RERC
• Shepherd Center
• 2020 Peachtree Road, NW
• Atlanta, GA 30309
• wirelessrerc_at_shepherd.org