The dragging and letting go to type I couldn't get the hang of personally.
But what I don't understand is how attempting to add accessibility to a
touch screen device could qualify as trying to con the law.
Are you threatening me? I am the great Cornholio! I come from Lake Titicaca!
-----Original Message-----
From: dan cook
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 1:05 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] LWorks
also, you don't have to double tap, as you can drag your finger around
the screen and let go to type
therefore when dialing a number, if you know where the five is for
example, just press and let go. also the buttons arn't that close
together, so even though it takes a while to get used to, there are
ways to deal with the harder parts of the system.
voice controled games?
now that i'd love to see.
On 4/21/12, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
I wasn't impressed with the Adroid. But I've had my IPhone for nearly two
years and my IPod Touch for even longer and neither of their touch screens
sows any signs of giving out.
Are you threatening me? I am the great Cornholio! I come from Lake
Titicaca!
-----Original Message-----
From: Desiree Oudinot
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:22 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] LWorks
Hi Damien,
Join the club! I also tried an IPhone and hated it. While I did
eventually get to the point where I could dial a number within a
reasonable amount of time (with a lot of trial and error, and it still
wasn't as fast as dialing a number with buttons, since you have to
tap, make sure it's the number you want, double tap, repeat), the deal
breaker for me was when I tried to set up my voicemail. That's usually
a simple enough process that takes 2 minutes at most. With an IPhone,
not so much. First, finding the blasted icon took about 5 minutes.
Then, I recorded my message, groped around on the screen some more for
the save button, and...it refused to save! I think I messed around
with that for about half an hour before I finally gave up and took it
back to the store. I'm sorry, but learning curve or no learning curve,
a simple task like setting up voicemail should not take anywhere near
half an hour to accomplish.
As for buttons wearing out faster than touch screens, I have to
disagree. I have a friend who has an Android. He's had it for less
than 6 months, and he tells me that the touch screen is becoming less
and less responsive. It's to the point now where he's probably going
to have to buy another one, although he said if he's going to have to
keep replacing it every 6 months, he might as well not bother and go
back to a normal phone with buttons. My friend is someone who always
takes good care of his stuff too so I would be highly skeptical that
he did anything to cause it. On the other hand, I've had very basic
phones, phones that did nothing but call and text, and I had one for 5
years, another for 3, and my current phone, the Pantech Breeze, which
has some accessibility built in (though admittedly not as much as an
IPhone or Droid), is still going strong after nearly a year. None of
them actually broke. I just retired them when I wanted something new.
So I would definitely have to disagree with this notion that touch
screens are as immortal as some people think they are.
On 4/21/12, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
I think you're missing the point though. Touch screens are cheaper to
make
and qite frankl last longer since eventually buttons will give out. My
laptop for instance is missing te Tab key. Besides, now tat it's been
proven
that touch screens CAN be made accessible I can see a big leap forward in
terms of our technology.
Are you threatening me? I am the great Cornholio! I come from Lake
Titicaca!
-----Original Message-----
From: Damien Pendleton
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 11:25 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] LWorks
Hi Dark,
If I were to go into my deepest thoughts about touch screen, I'd have to
ban
myself for profanity. Trust it to say, I hate them with a passion and
think
that adding voiceover to a touch screen device is just another corrupt
twisted pro sighted business way of conning the law and getting away with
discrimination. The fact that so many VI people have found a way to
conquer
that is rather impressive to me, and if that's the case, then so be it.
But
I think it's rather unnecessary to have to do that when the business
itself
should make more of an effort. Just because they don't know we exist, or
choose to believe we don't exist, doesn't make us go away. And if
companies
continue to design things in their own eye happy way, in another twenty
or
thirty years it's probably unlikely we'd be able to use anything in the
mainstream market and we'll be right back to square one with specially
designed excessively expensive products and the like.
That's only my opinion, I know tons of you won't agree, but this debate
goes
slightly away from games so I don't want this to turn into a full blown
argument as to which is the best operating system to work with.
That's me off my soapbox now.
Regards,
Damien.
----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] LWorks
I must admit I'm planning on an Iphone myself when my laptop busts, since
these days I just need something portable, and there are more and more
really awsom sounding games for it.
I understand there will be a learning curve, but actually I will
probably
use games to help me with that, for instance playing text games to learn
about screen navigation, the same way that playing online web games got
me
familiar with site navigation.
Of course, I've not tried one yet, so I might be jumping to conclusions,
but from the sound of it touch screens are the way to go, and I'm
intreagued by the idea of one that works with screen reading.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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