On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:31 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Kevin Cole <[email protected]> wrote: >> I doubt I'm the first to ask... >> >> Any thoughts about accessibility and touch screens? Voice >> recognition? External keyboard / mouse (perhaps wireless)? >> >> Or just offer alternative inexpensive computers, SoaS, etc., >> recognizing that one size does not fit all? > > Apparently the iPad is pretty darn impressive WRT accessibility: > http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/01/the-ipad-could-be-the-best-mobile-accessibility-device-on-the-ma/ > > So touchscreen != not accessible. > > But it will be a significant amount of work to make Sugar as good as that.
There is good progress being made on the GNU/Linux desktop as well, but we have a few places in which we have some heavy lifting to do: e.g., the zoom views. We probably want to rewrite those so you can, for example, tab across the screen, as well. -walter > --scott > > -- > ( http://cscott.net/ ) > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
