Can anyone help me on this? I'm trying to design a simple phone system for a group of adults with learning disabilities. We need to replace standard phone keypads with bigger keypads that will take picture stickers so that, say, you push the button with a car on it to dial out for a taxi. Plus each button should default to memory dial, so that you can only choose one of 10 pre-programmed useful numbers. Additionally, it would be useful if there was someway of extending the keypad of a mobile phone (bluetooth device?) so that they could have similar system for a mobile phone. You could possibly do this simply by having a keypad device that emitted the various dial tones for the niumbers. Can you buy such a device anywhere? (I need something that doesn't imvolve any soldering, because my soldeing is rubbish).
replace phone key board with picture buttone - learning disability project
Sep 26, 2005
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This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but it does have picture buttons for dialing 9 programmed numbers. I don't see any way to disable the standard number buttons, though.
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Regards, Eric
Thanks, this is a really useful link - many of the phones om the site have one touch emergency dial buttons, and large and/or backlit displays, which is part of what I'm looking for.
Also note that some phones have a modular dial pad which can easily be disconnected to prevent dialing random long-distance numbers once the phone's programmable buttons have been configured.
There is a phone offered by one of the major wireless carriers called the Firefly. It acts as a regular cell phone, except that it has no traditional keypad: only a bank of numbers that call pre-determined numbers. The buttons have simple pictures on them, like fire for emergency services, etc. The buttons are also larger than regular cell phone keypads (which are usually quite tiny). That might help for your mobile question.
Kale
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