Hi Dark, Yes, Android has its own voice dictation. Pretty much all the major operating systems now have voice dictation in some form or another. I fully see that becoming the way of the future for most mobile devices since Android, iOS, and Windows devices have it, and I'm pretty sure the technology can and will improve over time.
As far as your point about consoles I'm in full agreement. I just don't ever see that happening no matter how many blind users may like to believe otherwise. It isn't economical for companies to add the proper accessibility, and like it or not money is usually ultimately the deciding factor when it comes to accessibility. The people who will endeavor to create accessible games won't be the big mainstream companies but indie developers and hobbyists. On 3/28/15, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > You might be correct on keyboards, however also bare in mind that at least > on Ios, you can use Siri to dictate (I think there is a similar function on > > Android but I'm not sure). > > I tend to dictate myself sinse it is much faster and easier than using the > on screen keyboard, even though Voiceover does handle the on screen keyboard > > quite well. > > Sinse Siri at least has also got to the point where you can for example open > > aps, write and read messages, and check e-mails all by voice commands I can > > see that sort of interface becoming more common in the future, which will be > > a help for visually impared people, even if there are times when you don't > want to speak to your computer, like when your in a meeting or (like now), > when I have a severe throat infection. > > Bad news of course for people who are deaf and blind, but as you said, > disabled consumers never get thought of anyway. > > I personally don't see console access as being a thing that will ever happen > > sinse even if there was say voice control, most information will continue to > > be graphical simply because most people use their eyeballs for most things, > > and it will always take a degree of wangling to represent even the barely > necessary graphical information to a visually impared person, let alone the > > huge graphical 3D monstrosities most game companies aim for. > > As I've said before, I see independent developers who create audio games as > > much for the same people who still enjoy audio dramas as for visually > impared people as the major future of where games are going, and what with > things like Somethinelse that seems to be happening more and more. > > All the best, > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
