Hey Scott: Thanks for the opinion. Per your recommendation, I did look at the mac and have tried out the speech interface. And, was impressed. There are numerous benefits to have an inter grated speech. From what I can tell, it is as good as linux with speakup / orca.
When looking at my wife's iphone, It reminded me of those microwave ovens with the absolutely flat and smooth key pad. How do you know where the buttons are? I am glad to hear the iphone is accessible. Terry On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:24:20 -0400you write: > >Well Tarry, > >I have been using an iPhone for just shy of three weeks and I find the >touch screen not to be an issue for me. In fact I think any blind >person has a very good shot at learning to work with the interface >with some time and patience because any new interface will take a >little more time to learn. I have successfully read/sent e-mail, >played music, podcasts, loaded several applications, and even have a >very affordable (for $90) a rather accessible GPS solution. I just got >the MobileNavigator software, so have to work with it a bit more. Of >course there is the iPod Shuffle and Nano, which the Shuffle offers >playback only, but is very accessible with the controls in the >earphone cord, and the Nano now offers recording audio and video as >well as a FM radio, and is controlled with a wheel you would slide >your finger around. Now as far as iTunes, I've been using it with >great success for many years. I find iTUnes to more than fit my needs >and for most people it will work fine. SOme folks do have special >requirements that perhaps iTunes does not meet, but for transferring >music to the device, it'll get the job done fine. Now of course it's >easy for me to say since I use a Mac and iTunes just works beautifully >and not having used it on a windows machine, the results may be >different. >Just wanted to share the fact that there are options that do not >require you to flash a device. I've done this, so I'm familiar with >the process and know it is not overly complicated, but it just seems >unnecessary when there are accessible solutions available. I >personally did not like Rockbox myself and this was a number of years >ago when I tried it out, but just the way it handled speech always >seemed to behave oddly. >
