Available for Free, Kona Makes it
Easy for the Visually Impaired to Stay Connected 
For
the visually impaired, using a mobile device hasn’t always been easy. Kyocera
Kona from Sprint helps to solve that problem by providing an easy-to-use
compact flip phone that is the first feature phone in the industry to offer
verbal translation enabling Internet browsing. Kona is also the first feature
phone to offer a user interface with verbal descriptions of navigation, with
which the device describes what is highlighted on the screen and works with
menus, messaging, contacts, missed calls, notifications, and many other
functions. Other accessibility features include variable speed text to speech
service, which reads texts to users, high-contrast user interface options to
accommodate a variety of vision ranges, dedicated In Case of Emergency (ICE)
and 911 shortcuts, and a tactile keyboard with well-defined buttons.
