This document summarizes a cross-cultural study of mobile phone use by students with disabilities ages 15-25. It reviewed the top 10 mobile phones in several countries and identified common accessibility features. A questionnaire was sent to 220 students to understand which phones they use, difficulties experienced, and how features are used for communication alternatives, viewing, memory aids, finding information, organization, and more. Popular strategies from projects in Japan, the UK, and US were examined for their fit with available phone features.

1. Cross-cultural study of the use of mobile phones E.A. Draffan (Univ. of Southampton, UK), Kenryu Nakamura, Mamoru Iwabuchi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Takeo Kondo, Sheryl Burgstahler (Univ. of Washington, USA)

2. Statistics

3. Mobile phones were identified in the Horizon Report (2009)as the technologies with the highest likelihood of entry into the mainstream of learning-focused institutions within the next year. The fastest-growing sales segment belongs to smart phones (2010) http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/ & http ://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010 / More statistics

8. Type of Difficulties

9. If my phone could change text to reduce glare this would be brill Speaking instructions - hard to remember the commands or which button sets it working. e.g phone home The 'large' text option on for font is not very large! Due to fear of getting frustrated at not knowing a feature, I had the blackberry for 6 months in a box before I started using it a year ago. I am still not familiar with all the features.

10. Difficulties in relation to the phone used.

11. Features

12. Number of times features were commented upon

13. Examples I take a picture as reminder and open webpages to save them as bookmarks so I can see the whole later Take pictures of whiteboards and other information (e.g. slides) to save making notes I use it to time activities...e.g. walking to the shops. Then save this information as a spread sheet. As I massively misjudge amount of time activities take. I also use the camera to take pictures of people I meet (with their permission) as I have a very very poor memory for names, so often cant find them in my phone book. The pictures help a lot. The fact the internet is always on hand is excellent for spelling, maps etc. I now cant imagine how I would manage without it, as I use it several times a day. I read PDF documents on iPhone on the way to school. using the notes to remember things, and using the alarm more than most people.