Hi, could you please tell me how long you did use the IPhone? It takes days or weeks of use to get comfortable with the thing. If you played with one for an hour you haven't done it justice. There isn't a tactile point of reference on the IPhone, but all of the objects are in the same places all the time. That makes it very easy to find the things you use most. Buttons and boxes also tend to be in the same places across applications. The back button or cancel button is always in the same spot on the top left corner no matter whether you are in settings or calendar or contacts or mail.
The gestures take long practice, but once you have mastered flicking, you can get to anything on the screen by flicking from one thing to the next until you find what you are looking for, even when you don't know exactly where it is. Yesterday I went out to a client who lost his sight several years ago and simply hasn't taken to his hp computer with zoomtext and window-eyes. Three weeks ago he bought an IPhone, and now he's downloading apps from the app store, text messaging, making calls and managing contacts, when he can barely type on his desktop or bring up the internet on his own. It's an IPhone, so it's cool and he wants to play with it. a few weeks of practice has made him far and away more effective on the IPhone than on his desktop and now he's wondering if he really needs a desktop computer at all for what he wants to do. Yesterday he asked me if he could do all the gestures on the trackpad of a macbook just like he could on the IPhone and I was happy to tell him that yes he could. He's sold. GW-micro has lost a subscriber. Not that I think window-eyes is a bad product by any means. It's tough to argue with results though. Windows screen access is running behind the 8-ball... Again. Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf, 1-888-255-5194 http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2011-01-28, at 7:23 AM, menno Schaap wrote: > Dear Erik, > > > I noticed your remark concerning trackpaths. I am intrested why it could be > so usefull. I treid an I phone but the problem I experienced was the lack of > taxtile referention point to work in a smooth and afficient manner. > I am very curious after the posibiliteis of such trackpath commands... > Could you please inform me about these possibilities and user experiences? > > Regards, > > > ------------------------------------------------ > > Menno Schaap > > Victorieplein 22-I > > 1078 PE Amsterdam > The netherlands > m: +31645548956 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: erik burggraaf [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 12:00 PM > To: GW Info > Subject: my own little suggestion > > The recent posts on things people would like to see in window-eyes have > gotten me thinking, and I know what I would really like to see in the new > update. Trackpad commands. Why not? I'm seeing more and more new laptops > with multi-touch, and I'm seeing the success my clients are having with the > IPhone and trackpad commander on the mac. It's not for everyone, but for > people who take to it, it's fast, intuitive and sharp-looking. And since a > built in screen reader couldn't possibly compete up to the standards of a > dedicated one, I really think you've got to get this into the product before > some one notices it's not a feature yet, smiles. > > Have a good one. > > Erik Burggraaf > User support consultant, > Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf, > 1-888-255-5194 > http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
