Well I aggree with you in part damon.
touch will be eventually the way.
but my mum has an android and has trouble herself with the touch
screen while my brother, dad and a friend with iphones, androids etc
actually can out pase my typing speed.
my friend is the fastest.
At 12:26 p.m. 22/04/2012 +0100, you wrote:
Hi Thomas,
I think you've hit the nail on the head with me. I've never been
sighted and therefore never been able to really visualise things.
It's like even in the real world, I constantly find myself wondering
why cars and pedestrians don't bother going straight forwards rather
than sideways, only to be told, "They are going forwards". This is
also significant in a gaming context, I think this is why I struggle
with games such as Shades of Doom. To be able to at least think that
I could play GMA Tank Commander, I had to listen to someone else
play it and then memorise all the directions, but I couldn't
visualise the world.
Plus, as I said in a previous post, my fingers are constantly in the
way so I can never quite perform the correct action to get it to do
what I want, and that is so frustrating. The amount of times I
wanted to chuck my stupid IPhone out the window was more than I could count.
Regards,
Damien.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] LWorks
Hi Dark,
Yeah, touchscreens can be nice once you get use to them. I didn't
find them as difficult as I thought they'd be, but there apparently
not for everybody. Like everything else in life it all depends on
how much effort, time, and energy you are willing to commit to
learning the new interface.
The best way I can describe it is cane travel verses a dog guide.
With cane travel a blind person uses his/her cane to stay in
contact with the world around them such as the tree lawn, walls,
staircases, parked cars, etc. With a guide dog the dog avoids
polls, trash bins, parked cars, and just about everything a blind
cane traveler is taught to use as landmarks. The difference between
a keyboard and touchscreen is similar.
With a keyboard or keypad there are buttons and keys in the same
place that a blind person can use to orient himself or herself
with. With a touchscreen it is a flat plastic surface with no
physical landmarks to orient the blind user. Instead a blind user
must use his/her memory and mental image of the screen layout to
point at a specific area of the screen and tap the correct icon,
menu option, etc. On the iPhone, at least, it helps that you get
some verbal feedback as to what you are doing.
This is nothing more than a hunch but I'm guessing people who are
having trouble with touchscreens have a very poor sense of spacial
orientation. They have difficulty visualizing the locations of
things on the screen and aren't sure where to put their fingers to
activate a certain icon etc. They are easily confused by the user
interface because they are unable to form a mental image of the
screen and how it is laid out for the sighted user.
Cheers!
On 4/21/2012 12:55 PM, dark wrote:
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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