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Audio Players for the Vision Impared?

Posted by Cliff on from the music-for-those-who-aren't-quite-blind dept.

Panz asks: "Over Easter my 86 year-old grandmother asked my parents to help her buy a CD player. Normally, there would just be a technology barrier to overcome. Unfortunately, my grandmother has macular degeneration which prevents her from using traditional consumer electronics. What, if any, low-vision friendly CD/MP3/audio players are available? Is there such a thing on the market?" What CD/MP3 players have interfaces suitable for people who have less-than-stellar eyesight? Features that would be nice to have would be backlit displays, and larger than normal text displays.

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  1. I really should let Mr. Obvious whore karma here, by orthogonal · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is rather obvious, but, since you don't indicate this needs to be portable...

    Get her a PC, and run Winamp at its built-in double sized setting on a low resolution monitor.

    And then do her a real favor, and rip all her CDs so she doesn't have to bother with changing the CDs.

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  2. Wi-Fi MP3? by Christ-on-a-bike · · Score: 0, Troll
    Does she live near a Wi-Fi network? If so a Squeezebox might do the job. It has a nice big bright display, and no need to change media.

    OTOH she will need someone to set it up to play things she likes, and the remote may not be very usable. (Could be replaced.)

  3. Hmm? by pauldy · · Score: 1, Troll

    IANAL however, the apprent new american way is to bust out a copy of the ADA and sue, sue, sue.

    There is another part of me that also says uhh GOOGLE.

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=U TF -8&q=mp3+player+for+the+blind