[access-uk] Re: IPhone
- From: "Mark Threadgold" <m.j.threadgold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:51:20 +0100
After reading the info it seems the touch screen completely pivotal to
using the phone. Can the iphone use a bluetooth keyboard to achieve the
same control as the touch screen? I would doubt it due to the complexity of
the on screen touch commands. So seems that good news with built in speech
output is drastically tempered by the touch screen issue. The obvious issue
as Tris pointed out is that it is going to be incredibly difficult to get
your hands on one to try before you buy. And it also looks like the speech
cannot be turned on without using the 8.2 version of itunes on your pc as
well. Never as simple as it loks is it?
Mark Threadgold
Of all the things I have ever lost, The one I miss most is my mind...
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
James & Nash
Sent: 09 June 2009 13:46
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: IPhone
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
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