On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 14:08 +0000, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > It seems that a touchscreen has been rejected by OLPC, though this > isn't certain. > It's hard to understand how the proposed OLPC paint program would be > used effectively.
Remember that the touchpad is dual-mode. It has capacitive and resistive parts. The center is both capacitive _and_ resistive, while the outer parts are resistive only. That means you can use _any_ hard object (though not a sharp one!!) like a fingernail or a stick or a wooden dowel to draw on the large area of the touchpad. That's the mechanism that takes the place of a touchscreen display, and one that also accomodates writing in languages that cannot be correctly represented on a keyboard (japanese, chinese, thai, etc). The resistive part also uses absolute positioning, just like a touchscreen does. Dan > Many children and adults with low literacy gain significant skills > from drawing rather than typing. > Similarly there are potential benefits in encouraging development of > literacy through trace programs. > > "Chalk" being one attempt to describe the requirements for an > improved "Slate" > http://www.peepo.co.uk/peepo2/authoringTool.html > > regards > > Jonathan Chetwynd > > > > On 16 Nov 2006, at 11:05, Steve Lee wrote: > > Thanks Henrik, I've had thoughts along those lines myself. The > hardware certainly has many of the attributes needed. Flexible > mounting and power will be required and perhaps the screen is a > little small. Touch screen would be useful for VOCAs. The OSK-ng > project should act as a focus for improvements in switch and alt > device access that can feed in. > > I caught the end of a Sugar presentation at the Gnome Summit and it > looked good. I also felt it has potential as it is simplified (1 > window at a time), uncluttered, attractive and brings in important > social software aspects. Several of us there for the Accessibility > Summit felt the demonstrated implementation has minor accessibility > issues such as reliance on colour but I'm sure they will get ironed > out with attention. > > It could be a really persuasive platform for many AT users. > Such use might help reduce the order shortfall as well ;-) > > Perhaps the Gnome a11y lists should be in on this as well for GOK, > Orca, AT-API etc? (I haven't added to limit cross posting). > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar
