A lot of people who use computers use the hunt and peck method because they
didn't learn touch typing when they were in school. I know this for a fact,
because the requirement to work at a major credit card company for which I
was employed was that you had to type 20 words per minute. Some people had
a hard time meeting this requirement, while I typed at about 45 words per
minute. When using my iPhone's touch screen QWERTY keyboard, I am nowhere
near that fast. There certainly is a difference.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "tim" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] xbox accessibility?
You must not know to many sighted people, because only those that don't
use computers peck at the keyboard. I can do from 120 to 180 words a min
and i have ran into even kids, teens and adults that can do higher than
that. So looks like your very sheltered when it comes to knowing what the
sighted can and can't do or you just only observe only what you want about
the sighted. Kind of like selective hearing for some.
At 04:11 AM 4/1/2015, you wrote:
Hi Kara.
what I meant is that most sighted people do not naturally touch type, they
look at the keyboard and push individual keys with a couple of fingers.
Obviously this is not to say "all" certainly anyone who has worked in a
job revolving aroun taking dictation will have the skills to do it
including touch typing, it's just that your average sighted person
doesn't.
This means that for a sighted person, an on screen touch screen keyboard
and an actual keyboard aren't that different, and they'd use them the same
way, just point and press, which is why as I said I see keyboards becoming
a more specialist thing in the future, not a standard input device, but
not something that will entirely be replaced by touch screens either sinse
touch typing will still be the fastest way of typing an making notes.
All the best,
Dark.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cara Quinn" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] xbox accessibility?
HI Dark,
You said:
most sighted people cannot actually touch type at anything like a
respectable speed, they just peer at the keys and press so aren't that
much slower than with a conventional keyboard
What do you mean about sighted people not being able to touch-type
quickly?
Am I completely misunderstanding you here?
Thanks bunches!
Cara
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On Mar 29, 2015, at 8:38 AM, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
That is why I use dictation.
the problem however devin is most sighted people cannot actually touch
type at anything like a respectable speed, they just peer at the keys and
press so aren't that much slower than with a conventional keyboard.
I suspect keyboards will always be around in some form, even if just for
taking notes or secretarial jobs simply because an accomplished typist
will always be faster than someone using a touch screen, though as on
ios, keyboard commands for actually using the operating system probably
won't be around for that long.
This is why I think it's going to fall into either using a keyboard for
specialist text in put, dictation or touch screen.
All the best,
Dark.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Devin Prater"
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Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 4:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] xbox accessibility?
Also, I think that if the touch screen is to be made the default input
device, I think screen readers have got to step up their imagining of
how a blind person would input text into the touch screen. Sure, braille
input is nice, but let's face a little bitty fact, braille is slower
than typing. A lot slower.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 28, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Thomas Ward <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi Shaun,
That may be so, but we all know mainstream consumer products isn't
concerned with accessibility for blind consumers. That keyboard which
may in deed be the best access for a blind consumer is quickly and
rapidly vanishing from the consumer space and is now a optional device
rather than a mandatory one. Now days touchscreens are the primary
input device for smartphones, laptops, tablets, and several other
devices.
So don't get to attached to your keyboard because I don't see it
lasting for that much longer outside of an office environment.
On 3/28/15, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote:
I agree, for us blinks, the best access is a keyboard, and that means
a computer at least for now.
as voice recognition gets better that may become another big form,
touch I am not sure about.
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