Then all these touch screen devices need to be completely accessible to the
blind and to other persons with other disabilities.
Regards,
Claude Everett
"Every one has a disability, Some, are more aware of it than others."
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Chittenden
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 6:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] From My Blog/My response to the braille Monitor
Article About the iPhone
No matter how much a few people complain, as with GUI replacing DOS, the
touchscreen will replace the non-active screen and physical buttons.
In every sector studied, systems / kiosks / devices with touchscreen
displays and well-designed user interfaces reduce errors and customer
service calls from 15%-20% to 3%-5% as compared with non-interactive
displays coupled with physical controls such as buttons. In addition, as of
2011, it is now less expensive for manufacturers to purchase touchscreen
displays than non-interactive displays with physical controls.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
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> On 6 Jun 2014, at 8:26, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> David,
>
> You make some really good points about Mr. Chong's article. But I also
> agree with Christopher when he says he did not find it nearly so
objectionable.
>
> There are plainly many folks who just have trouble with some of these
> things, like the IPhone, and the Android phone.
> I may or may not be one of them.
>
> Personally, I am trying to be objective about this whole era we are
> finding ourselves in, with the new technology as to the telephone. I
> am with my first ever Android device about a month now. I do not have
> to be good all at once with it, and am learning. And while there are
> amazing things about it, as a phone, my old clamshell flip phone is
> hands down more convenient to just pull out from my pocket and place
> my call. Trouble is the display is completely inaccessible, but the
> voice dialing (described in an earlier post I made) is not on any other
phone yet.
>
> A while back you were reminiscing about the old DOS computers, before
> Windows and Macs took over. I sort of liken this revolution to that
> time. I really got pretty confident using DOS. Then everything flipped
> into GUI land, and we all had to get our mouse pointer cursors and what
not.
>
> But on another aspect, it is the social aspects of these things that
> bothers me. No one is talking to one another anymore. People are on
> the street, just about running me over as I am walking with a cane,
> sometimes I think they are saying something to me, but no, they are
> walking right up to and around me, preoccupied with themselves,
> talking on their phones. And for that matter, the same bunch of folks
> might well be going to run one of us over as they drive an automobile,
> or even a bicycle while being inattentive with the vehicle they are
supposed to be in control of.
>
> I sort of really miss the phone booth.
> I mean, now where do I have to go to change in to my Superman costume!
> So yes, I just get cranky. Maybe it is being 61 years of age, and
> wondering when the learning curve will start to straighten me out.
>
> And when I am in a bit of a foul mood about the touch screen, I ask
> myself, how can it be that the simple buttons such as we have on
> devices like the Humanware Victor Stream or any number of other real
> hardware devices that uses real buttons, really logically not be a
> better idea than this touch screen gesture navigation, so called
innovation? I want not to have to fight with a communication device.
>
> Plus, have you read how much harm has come from the exploitation to
acquire the rare elements to make touch screen technology? Somewhere in the
Congo in Africa, I think, thousands of indigenous peoples moved or assailed
to get this material. Makes me feel kind of guilty even holding the thing.
>
> Sorry for such a long piece. But I really welcome the debate and the many
points I get to be hearing through this discussion group.
>
> This is probably some sort of transitional period.
> I look for the joy, and I look for what I want. I guess we all do.
> I hope that some of this makes some sense to someone.
>
> Rik James
>
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