not to mention the cheapness of the games.
At 11:39 a.m. 22/04/2012 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Damien,
Hmmm...I'm not sure what I can say in your case. It just seems to me
that we as blind users have little choice in the matter. A lot of
the smart phones my wife and I have looked at are all touchscreen,
and those that have keypads aren't much easier to use because the
buttons are way too small or they are so flat that they are hard to
feel one from another. For me learning to use an iPhone was making
the best out of a bad situation as other touchscreen phones like the
Droid phone are less accessible unless you sit down and have someone
sighted set everything up for you, and that doesn't even count the
$60 or so for the screen reader for Droid OS to boot. So for me at
least the iPhone seems to be the best deal we are going to get in
terms of a smart phone.
Not only that, but as I've said in prior posts its not just smart
phones. Just this year I have beta tested a lot of software with
drastic U.I. changes designed for a touchscreen device. Windows 8,
which I'm running in a virtual machine, is completely different
from anything else I've ever used. Its got its accessibility
challenges, but no matter how much we scream, cry, and wine I'm
pretty certain Microsoft won't change the user interface. We'll have
to deal with it in whatever way we can.
Same goes for Linux as well. Ubuntu Linux, which I've used for about
six years, has recently switched over to a new graphical user
interface called Unity. It has introduced a number of accessibility
issues/challenges which are being fixed, but when I recommended that
the Ubuntu developers wait to introduce Unity once the accessibility
issues were fixed I got a resounding no. They explained that its all
part of their new marketing strategy to target PCs, smart phones,
tablet PCs, etc and they want a user interface suited for
touchscreen devices etc. Basically, accessibility takes a backseat
to the bottom line. About the only good thing I can say is the
Ubuntu developers have worked closely with the blind community to
fix bugs and improve the accessibility of the Unity desktop
environment in Ubuntu 12.04. Which comes right back to making the
most of an undesirable situation.
Cheers!
On 4/22/2012 7:20 AM, Damien Pendleton wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Yeah, maybe I did give up. But like I said. That's because I don't
believe it is practical to have to sit with a phone spending five
minutes trying to access something when you could access the same
thing on, say Simbian or XP in a matter of seconds. And if touch
screen is the way forward, then I don't know what I'll be doing
with computers because it'd be even worse. I couldn't imagine me
having to be slow on a computer. That'd drive me insane and make me
feel very small.
Regards,
Damien.
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