[access-uk] Re: IPhone
- From: "James & Nash" <james.austin1984@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:46:29 +0100
Hi,
I agree with your assessment of the Iphone issues. Not being able to see the
screen, I do not see that a touch screen interface will be a viable
alternative to what we have on Nokia phones for example. Even the Nokia N 78
which was very poorly designed did not go that far.
Take care
James, Lyn, Nash and Twinny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 1:34 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: IPhone
I am not anti-Apple (I own a machine or two and an iPod Touch and a
regular Mac OS user) but I am unconvinced that a touchscreen can be a
right interface for someone with no sight whatever. Even magnification
is problematic on the iPhone/Touch given the size and the fact it is a
touchscreen. I am also uncertain how what is intended to be in parts a
gestural interface will work out in practice for those users who cannot
see at all. Clearly the efforts on the iPhone are an outgrowth of their
use of OS X (or at least a scaled down versio of it), work to make the
device speak for use in the gym or GPS navigation and leveraging their
multi-touch technology to provider a more sophisticated touchscreen
interface.
As for the pace of development I would say that this is a cost of
mainstream providers taking on this role as opposed to specialist
providers. Apple recieves no extra money and therefore have limits on
the manpower they have to extend into accessibility improvements which
form only a very small part of their total priority list. Not only this
but it more or less kills any kind of third party market that may be
able to drive the pace forward sufficiently for the market of those
users who depend on those accessibility improvements, particularly as
they relate to the desktop operating system such as Mac OS.
The development of accessibility on Mac OS can be described as steady
but slow and there are still things missing from it that Windows users
take for granted with their favourite accessibility product.
It will take me a little while to absorb the news that has emerged and
still later before I could try anything out and I think that is where
the real knowledge will come from rather than the blurb that is
currently provided.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
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