Well, that depends. The haptic vibration on Android phones that I have seen merely activates the phone's vibration motor very briefly each time an onscreen button is touched. To sighted people, this makes it feel like the button is physically activating. To the blind person, there is no similar experience because the vibration is not actually localised. If Apple does the same thing, it will continue being a gimmick. However, if Apple has figured out a way to create localised vibrations, this would, in fact, be very ground-breaking.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 21 Aug 2014, at 3:57, Joshua Tubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > My thought is that Apple is adding features that have been in android phones > for years. I wouldn’t be surprised if VOiceOver gets haptic feedback if you > use an iPhone 6. >> On Aug 20, 2014, at 1:00 AM, Barry Hadder <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello everybody. >> >> Just ran a cross a development in regards to the up coming iPhone6 that I >> found very interesting. >> It appears probable that it will have something called haptic feedback. >> This will allow a user to feel subtle vibrations on different areas of the >> touch screen resulting from app events. In other words, a tactile screen. >> Sounds like an optican to me, or at least things seem to be moving in that >> direction. >> You can google this and quickly find information about it, but a source I >> found is at http://www.macrumors.com/2014/07/10/iphone-6-haptic-feedback/. >> I would be interested to here anybody’s thoughts. >> Later. >> >> >> Barry >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
