Hi. I tend to agree with you. Have been in situations where all I've had is my iPhone and I have got quite quick at doing web and email.
God Bless! Maria from australia Newbie mac user. bubbygirl1...@gmail.com will get you fb as well as email & iMessage. skype same as email,without the gmail part. twitter bubbygirl On 10/06/2012, at 8:49 AM, David Chittenden wrote: > Hello, > > It really depends on which paradigm you use. > > If you must stick with the old paradigm that everything needs to be done > using the keyboard, the computer will be significantly faster. After all, the > interface is designed for keyboard control, and the esoteric keyboard > commands are well-trained and well-memorised by blind people who have been > properly trained. > > However, in the new paradigm, where the touch-screen interface is utilised to > full advantage, and the blind take as much advantage of the two-dimensional > interface as the sighted do, access actually speeds up. > > For instance, according to a study published in 2008, sighted people take 5 > seconds on average to assess whether a website will be viable for the > person's current needs. For the blind, it takes between 10 seconds and 3 > minutes just to locate the pertinent information, if the web site is properly > marked up. Using the keyboard is a serial interface. Knowing which text, > landmarks, headers, Etc., if they are appropriately used, increases this > speed, but the serial nature of the interface means the blind will almost > never be able to truly understand how websites are structured. With the left, > top, and right-hand toolbars / link lists all starting above the text of > theweb page, computer screen readers with the serial interface are actually > quite cumbersome, as the iPhone's keyboard interface so aptly demonstrates. > > That said, the relational two-dimensional touch-screen interface affords > quite good access when utilised as it was designed in the new paradigm. > > When reading through email, ,i know where to touch on the display to start > reading of the actual message. I usually touch for the date/time announcement > and do a two-finger swipe down to have the message read. ,this is much faster > than using the keyboard, and I find it preferable to the computer because I > have precise control over what is spoken by where I touch, and I do not need > to memorise any esoteric commands. > > For web pages, ,i can slide my finger to find where the main body of the text > is and then use a two-finger flick down to automatically read it. This means, > I can start reading the main body of the page without needing to memorise > those esoteric commands, and I don't need proper headings or landmarks to do > so. > > For this reason, I am strongly considering acquiring an iPad so I can have > more precise control / view of web pages. I am now a doctoral candidate, so I > need to do a lot of web research. Once I know where articles begin in > database search engines, I can go right to the article without worrying about > whether the author has added special blind-specific navigation commands. > > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: dchitten...@gmail.com > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > > On 09/06/2012, at 2:44, Craig Werner <coffeeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Greetings to the list. >> >> After listening to Dean Martineau's well-managed podcast on Safari >> with the iPhone, I began to wonder which operating system, Windows or >> iOS, allows the user to be most productive on the net. It occurred to >> me that one has to use a great many keystrokes and employ some rather >> intricate mental gymnastics to work with the iPhone online, but my >> perception may be due to my being a quite new iOS user. I'd be >> interested to hear from those with long-time experience with both >> operating systems as to which is the more efficient. I'm going to >> assume, of course, that a keyboard is used with the Apple device to >> allow for faster typing and for commands to be executed rapidly. >> >> Thank you for all help. >> >> Craig >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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