Our innovation unit developed the Mobile Phone Toolkit within RNIB.
But the seed for this work was planted by COST 219ter when this toolkit was first created.
The toolkit you'll find on these pages to download for free, is heavily updated to include a scoring system. These developments help you to fill out the toolkit correctly and get the most from it.
As part of the process, the toolkit has been validated against user needs under COST 219ter. The report for this can be found at http://www.tiresias.org/cost219ter/study_mobile_phone_access/index.htm
What is the mobile phone toolkit?
It's a list of the design decisions related to designing a mobile phone.
You can add in whether you have met the criteria fully, partly or not at all... or if that criteria is not relevant to your mobile phone design.
Once you've done that, it tells you whether your design decision has excluded anyone from using your phone.
If you'd like to see what it does for yourself, then you can download it from this page and try it out!
Need a bit more help?
The toolkit is a hugely innovative tool, and is designed for you to develop your own expertise and get more from your own design process.
As we know that some of you will want to check designs with us, or ask questions about a particular aspect of their design, we'd love you to call us on 01733 37 53 45 or email busdev@rnib.org.uk to discuss how we can work together. Please remember to tell us that your enquiry relates to the Mobile Phone Toolkit!
Do you have other Toolkits?
We know that not everyone designs mobile phones and that this concept could be developed to cover other product areas.
In fact, we've already tried to make one that could cover all products but it got really confusing and long! So in the future, we'd like to add more Toolkits for other design areas.
If you want a Toolkit for your product, we'd like to hear from you. Firstly, if we get lots of requests for the same product area then we may develop one for you. Secondly, if you fund the development then that would help us find the resource to do it sooner on a product consultancy or sponsorship basis.
For anyone who doesn't design mobile phones, it's great if you can tell us which Toolkits you'd like to have by emailing us at busdev@rnib.org.uk or calling us on 01733 37 53 45.
Download the mobile phone toolkit
The mobile phone toolkit has been developed as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. This is to make it user friendly for lots of different computers.
You will find three documents to download. The mobile phone toolkit itself, a instruction guide for every user, and an instruction guide with set up instructions for JAWS users.
Please call 01733 37 53 43 or email busdev@rnib.org.uk if you have any difficulties accessing these documents.