I was looking at the ITell yesterday as it was mentioned on this list.
Main downside is you kinda loose a lot of the portability if you have to
attach an "accessibility dongle". Knowing Apple their eventual solution
will be more elegant. I was thinking along the lines of some kind of
finger browsing where you can touch any part of the surface and it reads
to you what it is. Then with a gesture you tell it you want to do some
interaction with it. So you drag over the apps until you find the one
you want and then do a swirl or something to launch it. Eventually you
would know generally where to touch so you wouldn't have to hunt as much
before gesturing. In other words, of a11y we would default to a kind of
browse mode and once we've picked the thing we want to interact with we
give commands to do something. This could even work for the on-screen
keyboard where maybe just releasing my finger types the key I have
browsed to. Anyway, I don't know if this would really work but it's just
an idea.
CB
David Poehlman wrote:
Hi CB, there are two ways this could be done. Apple could engineer an ui
and back it with vo or a 3rd party could develop an app that talks. there
is a hardware device for the IPod called ITel I think that achieves at least
part of this for the IPod.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: iTunes strange happening
So out of curiosity, how would you make an iPhone accessible? Obviously
it needs a speech engine, but how do you interact? There is no tactile
UI. I think it's a lot like a touch screen kiosk and some have simple
instructions saying to touch the top left for yes or top right for no.
That kind of interaction model doesn't scale very well for complex
interaction like typing an email . Not making excuses for Apple but this
seems like a tough nut to crack.
CB
Krister Ekstrom wrote:
22 jul 2008 kl. 05.10 skrev UCLA Bruins Fan:
I did bring this to an apple agents attention when I was calling
about another issue and was told that apple would "look into it" This
was in June, and appparently nothing has been resolved as of now.
But seriously, what do you expect with all this Iphone business going
on? I'm sorry to sound like i do, but it has always been like this
that snassy flashy looks has been prioritized over functionality and
accessibility. To be frank, i'm surprised that we have such a well
functioning screen reader as we have.
With all this said, i agree that the dialog in question should be
usable, i just wonder what the best way to get there is. If we get
angry and demanding, we will only be regarded as whiners and
complainers and if we ask politely, not much seems to happen.
/Krister
