jacob, you should sell your idea. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Schmude" <[email protected]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 3:18 PM Subject: Re: iPhone accessibility
Why don't we just slightly adapt the touchscreen interface itself, instead of carrying around yet another keyboard just to operate a phone? Why in the world would you want to do that, anyway, a phone needs to be operable by itself. Requiring a separate keyboard would decrease usability and portability both and, further, since many applications require you to touch their icons and wouldn't have keyboard support, how would you overcome this? And, no, I'm not just asking questions, I actually do have an idea of how the touchscreen can be adapted. I'll post it here, if interested. On Jan 4, 2009, at 15:12, David Poehlman wrote: > There are many ways to solve this issue but I think what alex is > getting at > her is that the IPone has no keyboard interface to start with. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "E.J. Zufelt" <[email protected]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS > Xby > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 3:07 PM > Subject: Re: iPhone accessibility > > > Good afternoon Alex, > > Why could a software keyboard like the one on the newest Rockbox > releases > not work? > > Thanks, > Everett > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alex Jurgensen" <[email protected]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS > X by > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 3:39 PM > Subject: Re: iPhone accessibility > > >> Hi, >> >> We need to write the Braille and QWERTY Apple drivers for the IPhone. >> >> Thanks for listening, >> Alex, >> >> >> On 4-Jan-09, at 11:38 AM, David Poehlman wrote: >> >>> you lost me. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Alex Jurgensen" <[email protected]> >>> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac >>> OS X >>> by >>> theblind" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 2:27 PM >>> Subject: Re: iPhone accessibility >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> The driver for the Apple Braille keyboard that is. >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Alex, >>> >>> >>> On 4-Jan-09, at 10:48 AM, David Poehlman wrote: >>> >>>> it'sx. I got the iphone mixed up with google android. The apps >>>> are >>>> separate but the core should be doable. >>>> >>>> On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:38 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: >>>> >>>> Good afternoon Alex, >>>> >>>> Can you tell me how you get past, or plan to get past, the >>>> application sandboxing on the iPhone platform? As I understand it >>>> applications on an iPhone cannot interoperate. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Everett >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Jurgensen" >>>> <[email protected] >>>>> >>>> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac >>>> OS >>>> X by theblind" <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 2:17 PM >>>> Subject: Re: iPhone accessibility >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> No, I am. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for listening, >>>>> Alex, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 4-Jan-09, at 10:12 AM, David Poehlman wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I think it might be tv raman. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jan 4, 2009, at 12:36 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Good afternoon, >>>>>> >>>>>> I see on the VIPBC page that there is reference to a Google code >>>>>> project for a screen-reader on the iPhone. I was pretty sure >>>>>> that making a screen-reader for the iPhone platform would be >>>>>> impossible because of application sandboxing. I cannot figure >>>>>> out who the project owner is. I'd love to talk more about this >>>>>> project if anyone, particularly the manager, is interested. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Everett >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > > > The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. --Douglas Adams
