Specialized push-button telephone for blind users

by Kharkiv rehabilitation centre 'Pravo vibora'
Specialized push-button telephone for blind users
Specialized push-button telephone for blind users
Specialized push-button telephone for blind users
Specialized push-button telephone for blind users
Specialized push-button telephone for blind users
Specialized push-button telephone for blind users

Project Report | Oct 3, 2025
Our work is important for blind people

By VALENTYNA BUTENKO | Lider projekt

Dear friends!

Our project lives on the Global Given platform. We are grateful to you for this! Perhaps this will draw people's attention to such issues.

How does a blind person live in the modern world. How has their life changed with the advent of modern technologies. How do blind people feel in Ukraine, where there is a war now? How do Ukrainian blind refugees live abroad without knowing the language and in an unfamiliar space? What helps them cope with difficulties.

BlindPhone is one of the modern solutions and a godsend for blind users, fans of push-button smartphones in difficult situations.

It helps blind people to stay in touch with others through messengers, to conduct social networks and to use all the features of the Internet.

The “BlindPhone” project began in August 2021. Blind people needed push-button phones that could make sounds, because modern operating systems installed on push-button phones or smartphones are not at all adapted to the needs of blind users, and old phone models began to exhaust their life resources. And we managed to solve this issue.

Our team managed to combine the growth of the use of push-button phones and the modern multifunctionality of current smartphones.

The uniqueness of this project also lies in the fact that all our specialists are also blind. And so at the beginning of 2023 we realized our dream by adapting two push-button touch smartphones to the Android system: AGM M7 and AGM M7 PRO. These two smartphones are shockproof and waterproof. Another feature of these two smartphones is that they have a built-in powerful speaker that will allow you to listen to your favorite music or any other information as if on a music column.

Now we will consider in more detail the list of applications that will be fully accessible from the buttons in our adapted smartphones:

1. We are working on a new Screen reader for the AGM M7 PRO push-button smartphone, for faster navigation in the interface after adaptation for blind users.

2. We are working on adapted software for the Conquest F3 push-button smartphone.

Who is interested in such push-button smartphones?

The push-button smartphones adapted by us are convenient for people who, in addition to vision loss, have various limb injuries and for the elderly who are used to using push-button phones.

Our partner online store with which we cooperate provides phones on preferential terms.

We emphasize that we set a low price for adapted smartphones, as we understand the realities that are happening in Ukraine in connection with the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine.

We are not going to stop there and will try to surprise our Customers with new developments, adapting more and more new push-button smartphones.

With inspiration,

the “BlindPhone” team.

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Organization Information

Kharkiv rehabilitation centre 'Pravo vibora'

Location: Kharkov - Ukraine
Website:
Project Leader:
Valentina Butenko
Kharkov , Kharkov Ukraine

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