Sure. They could make the home button into a sort of reactive button, where you would press on the raised metal button, it would click, 3d touch, and would depress like a regular button. Tellephone keys, little keyboard keys for typing, feelable icons, it'd all make sense, especially sense 3d touch is involved.
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 2, 2015, at 8:44 AM, Scott Granados <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’m not sure about that either because I know they do hire good quality > people even for accessibility efforts so I’m not sure it’s that simple. I > heard about the patent for the reactive metal but I can’t imagine that being > practical unless it has some benefit for the sited as well. >> On Oct 2, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> For whatever the reason, I simply don't think Apple has higher the expertise >> they need to get braille right. I think this notion of them doing something >> special with braille on the screen is nonsense. If I'm wrong and proven >> wrong, so be it. But I really do believe the problem is they don't know how >> to get it right, and they haven't found the person who can help them do it. >> That seem sad, given their money, but there you go. >> . >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Oct 2, 2015, at 6:31 AM, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I sort of think Apple has something big planned though. I've read that they >>> have their own patent for sort of elastic and shapable metal, so that the >>> metal could form dots and such. I don't know if they'll do that, or just >>> keep supporting braille displays, but the lack of new fixes in braille >>> leads me to think that they'll do a tactile display for the iPhone, and the >>> braille display things will just get in the way. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Oct 2, 2015, at 7:15 AM, Scott Granados <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> BTW, I meant that tongue and cheek, I am in total agreement with you. >>>> Apple’s braille support needs a lot of work and it’s inexcusable how bad >>>> it is now. >>>> >>>>> On Oct 2, 2015, at 6:11 AM, Anders Holmberg <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi! >>>>> Oh dear. >>>>> Soon i will give up on this as they do not seem to prioritize braille at >>>>> all. >>>>> If apple was a german or European company there’s no doubt that the >>>>> braille support will be better. >>>>> It took us forever to get good braille support for Jaws. >>>>> Also for window eyes but its there. >>>>> Nvda has support for braille displays but braille support in the sense of >>>>> navigating seems not to be able yet. >>>>> Dolphin has good support and orca for linux. >>>>> Still mac is not very well supported in braille. >>>>> Its a shame and i will really let them know that. >>>>> Sorry for my offensive attack here but i am so tired of this. >>>>> THey just get back to you saying thanks for your report we will pass this >>>>> on to blablabla. >>>>> I am pissed off but i hope things will be better. >>>>> Still optemistic though. >>>>> /A >>>>>> 1 okt. 2015 kl. 08:33 skrev William Windels <[email protected]>: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hello all, >>>>>> I was reading the bug and feature report of Kris , thx for that. >>>>>> As announced in that blog, there was not much braille testing with 10.11 >>>>>> while this is for me and others important. >>>>>> >>>>>> Some first remarks: >>>>>> 1. It happens often that I have braille on the display but I can’t >>>>>> move around. The trick seems to be that I have to switch to another >>>>>> program and then I should come back. A kind of screen refreshing is >>>>>> needed here perhaps? >>>>>> >>>>>> 2. I turn vo-cursor on the braille display off because dots 7 and 8 >>>>>> are used for capitals and some computer signs. >>>>>> When this is turned off, I can’t see on the display which application >>>>>> has the focus while switching from app to app with command+tab. (Yes, I >>>>>> can hear it but sometimes I don’t use sound if I am in a course. >>>>>> I suggested accessibility to put the selected program on the most left >>>>>> position on the display or, like in windows with jaws, only the selected >>>>>> program should appear on the display while switching from one program to >>>>>> another. >>>>>> >>>>>> 3. Not all controls like radiobuttons , checkboxes, comboboxes, >>>>>> edit-fields , are presented with symbols on the display. Mostly, they >>>>>> are fully written in dutch “keuzerondje=radiobutton, >>>>>> aankruisvakje=checkbox, keuzelijst=combobox … >>>>>> This should be represented with symbols like { }/{x} [ ] [x] ( )/(x) … >>>>>> I subpose that the controls like above, are presented with this kind of >>>>>> symbols when the interface-language is set on English. >>>>>> This is een old question I think but still not changed. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any comments or reports to apple accessibility are very welcom >>>>>> >>>>>> Kind regards, >>>>>> William Windels >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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. >>> >>> -- >>> 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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