[vicsireland] Re: "iPhone from the blind" post
- From: "Darragh" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:13:00 -0000
This is the same person who has developed Emacspeak! A very very intuative and
accessible audio desktop for Linux. He was the person who, to my knowledge
first came up with the idea of auditory icons and using different sounds
similtainiously for determining shapes and different interface elements. He's
an amazingly tallented man so if anyone can figure out a way of using touch
screens effectively I'm very confedent he can.
Darragh
Blog and Linux accessibility walk-through's: www.digitaldarragh.com
-----Original Message-----
From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Mark Magennis
Sent: Mon 19/01/2009 13:00
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: "iPhone from the blind" post
TV Raman, Google's accessibility engineer, is working on an accessible
touch screen phone for blind people. It was reported in a New York
Times story which you can read at http://tinyurl.com/845z67. He
created a dialer that works based on relative positions. It interprets
any place where he first touches the screen as a 5, the center of a
regular telephone dial pad. To dial any other number, he simply slides
his finger in its direction - up and to the left for 1, down and to
the right for 9, and so on. If he makes a mistake, he can erase a
digit simply by shaking the phone, which can detect motion. Raman and
a co-worker, Charles Chen, are also attempting to extend various
phones' ability to read back scanned text to include signs that are
anywhere in the phone's field of view.
Mark
On 19 Jan 2009, at 12:38, Darragh wrote:
> Tim,
>
> From what I gather from their brief press release, they mean to use
> moon to show the objects on the screen as their constantly
> changing. Speaking the feedback is one thing when the buttons
> aren't moving all over the place but when you have to find the
> buttons first then another way needs to be devised.
>
> I thought they'd actually just do something with TTS so that as you
> moved over the screen with your finger it would sspeak the element
> you were on. when you wanted to activate it, you'd just double-
> click it.
>
> But, it's a step in the right direction ad that's reason enough to
> be happy.
>
> Darragh
> Blog and Linux accessibility walk-through's: www.digitaldarragh.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Tim Culhane
> Sent: Mon 19/01/2009 10:30
> To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [vicsireland] Re: "iPhone from the blind" post
>
> Hi,
>
> They have to be joking? developing an alternative interface for
> the iPhone
> and then use a system used by practically nobody?
>
> Having said that, I've not heard how this skin works. Why do you
> mean
> moon, or even braille letters on a keypad, when presumably it is
> either
> a modified querty keypad or phone keypad. None of us have braille
> on our
> phones or computer keypads.
>
> As long as you can learn the keybord and there is speech feedback
> for
> input and output, then surely this would work?
>
> Tim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darragh
> Sent: 17 January 2009 19:10
> To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [vicsireland] Re: "iPhone from the blind" post
>
>
>
> Excelent
>
>
>
> I saw this on http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/blog/?p=2416 a few days
> ago too.
> Looks very interesting, although I don't know if I'd like reading
> moon.
>
>
>
>
>
> Put the briefest of blog entries up on Thursday over at
> http://www.digitaldarragh.com/post/Accessible-iPhone-for-the-blind-is-availa
> ble.aspx
>
>
>
> Glad your still reading.
>
>
>
> From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Declan Meenagh
> Sent: 16 January 2009 18:15
> To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [vicsireland] "iPhone from the blind" post
>
>
>
> Hi Everyone. I've just wrote a post about the suggested iPhone case
> which
> would help blind users access it. I'd appreciate any comments on
> the post,
> here's the link:
> http://declan06.blogspot.com/2009/01/accessible-iphone.html#links
> Thanks and have a good weekend,
> -Declan
> www.DeclanMeenagh.com || DMeenagh@xxxxxxxxx ||
> Declan.P.Meenagh@xxxxxxx
> LInkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/declanmeenagh
>
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