I guess I'm just a lot more pragmatic. I'm going to use whatever tools make my life easier and make me more productive. I wouldn't have been employed the last 20 plus years without products like JAWS. I doubt we'd even have the accessibility on mainstream products today like we do on the iPhone without some of the blindness only products that preceded it, like Outspoken, the Braille 'n' Speak and so on. Furthermore, I think the strides we've made in getting access to mainstream applications isn't going to be derailed by the occasional innovative app that some blind person or someone who is trying to help the blind iPhone user drops into the App Store.
Since I can't predict the future, I'm also not going to make any universal statements like I'll never use a particular product or an app. Didn't I see someone say recently they'd never use a Kindle because they needed sighted assistance to turn on speech when reading a book or wouldn't get an Android phone because you needed sighted assistance to install and configure a screen reader? What are these people left to do now that neither one of these statements are true? What if Fleksy catches on in the sighted community or gets incorporated into IOS? I'm all for people taking a political stand and choosing to use or not to use an app for any reason whatsoever. That's why we have so much choice and have so many apps in the App Store. I'm just providing a different opinion. I hope people feel it's perfectly OK to use or not to use Fleksy or any other app out there. On 21/08/12 06:30, Jon Pierson wrote: > Hi, > The short answer to the "why would I" question is that most people report a > three or even four-fold typing speed increase on average. > Now if you already type like a machine gun on steroids then you have made > your point. > It certainly isn't for everyone but judging by comments made on this list > over the past couple of months, it certainly is a time saver. > > Jon > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Krister Ekstrom > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 4:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: I'm Just Not Getting the Hang of Flexy. > > Hi, > This is one of many reasons why i never ever ever will get Fleksy. What > would i want it for when there's an adequate keyboard already present and > one that can adapt to the situations, so if there's an email, to type the > adress, there will pop up a keyboard with relevant signs already in place. I > know i'm politically incorrect but i say it anyway, why do i want a special > solution because i'm blind? And before anyone says it, it's not the apps > themselves i'm afraid of, they're there in the app store for grabbing, if > you want 'em get 'em, what i'm afraid of is the demand it brings. When we > get enough special solutions to do all kinds of things for us, we won't ever > want to investigate what's already in the store, because it doesn't do what > the blind require, and all of a sudden we're back in the hands of Freedom > Science fiction, GW Micro, Sendero and the other companies who sell badly > programmed solutions for a humongous price, and that's what i wanted to > avoid when i first got the IPhone. > And down from his soap box he slithers. > /Krister > > 21 aug 2012 kl. 12:17 skrev "Sandy Finley" <[email protected]>: > >> Debbie, thanks for having the guts to admit this; I feel the same as you. > I have come to the conclusion that I simply have not practiced typing enough > on the iPhone. With BT keyboards and Siri it's easy to avoid typing on the > phone. Ive gotten somewhat better but I', still not a proficient typist on > the phone. I think that as I force myself to practice more on the phone my > skills on Fleksy will improve. >> >> Sandy >> >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Debbi Williamson >> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 9:04 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: I'm Just Not Getting the Hang of Flexy. >> >> I wish I could get the hang of Fleksy. Do you all use it in portrait or > landscape mode? I almost never get a word in the list that i intended to > type. I can't figure what I need to do to practice. >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Regina Alvarado >> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 9:35 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: More I use Fleksy, more I like it! >> >> I really like Fleksy also, and I really like the button in the lower right > of the screen for new line as every time I swiped to the right and held my > finger to get the new line it put a period on the end of the word I just > typed. Sometimes I did not want the period as I had put in a comma or a > colon. Has anyone noticed this? Perhaps it is my fingers! >> >> On another note, how do you do a wink and a smile with punctuation! > Curious minds and all of that! >> Reggie >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Traci >> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 6:19 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: More I use Fleksy, more I like it! >> >> :) the more I use this app, the more I like it. >> >> It is fun to type the Fleksy way. >> >> I was looking around for the ampersand sign and came across the (at) > shortcut. Flicking down on the (at) brings up a bunch of email suggestions > like @gmail, or @yahoo. That is pretty cool! >> >> I was also successful in doing the smile & wink via punctuation. >> >> I like that there is the option to use the lower right button for new > line. >> >> One question I have is, how do I enter a space. For example, when I > entered the & symbol, I noticed there was no space between it and the > following word. >> >> Anyway, I just wanted to add in my positive comments on this app. I'm > pleased more than I expected. I had fast fun composing a Facebook status > via Fleksy. >> >> :) Traci >> Sent by Macbook Air Mail >> >> -- >> >> >> -- >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> -- >> >> > -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- 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/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
