Hi Sieghard,
of course, I don't want to compare two pieces of technology so
different like a computer and a mobile phone.
I do completely agree with you the touchscreen systems have less
flexibility and a low range of features, including editing functions.
But some very easy to implement editing functions I'm sure will help
the users and will not cost too much from the programming side.
Christopher, for example, already suggested a very simple way for
having comfortable editing functions to select blocks of text like in
Emacs editor.
The same way, I guess many other blind users would have clever suggestions too.
Actually, my idea is even simpler than that Christopher suggested.
In fact, I'd appreciate just a couple of new functions included into
the edit menu:
"Select from cursor to end of text";
"Select from cursor to beginning of text".
This way, while editing an email answer, for example, you could
quickly and easily select and delete the long tail of consecutive
previous Replies, often consisting of hundreds text lines.
To finish, roughly speaking, it is a good idea to take a look at
other touchscreen systems like Android, to see if better editing
solutions could be implemented in IOS too, although Apple
accessibility developers recently seem to me a little less sensitive
to users suggestions.
I'll investigate the Android next weeks with the friendly help of
some other blind users certainly higher experienced than me in using
that system.
Warmly,
Mario.
At 05:44 02/07/2013, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
Hi Mario,
Might I ask how you would suggest this can be improved? What gestures would
you like to see for selecting text and are there other touch screen devices
which offer a better experience? I guess I should rephrase this, do Android
phones offer a more user friendly experience when it comes to selecting text
since to my knowledge those are the only other somewhat accessible touch
screen devices out there? I have never used an Android device so forgive my
ignorance, but is selecting text and copy/cut/paste even accessible for a
blind user on an Android phone?
With a bit of practice I find it relatively easy to set my rotor to lines
and then use multiple pinch out gestures one after another to select a fair
bit of text. When you are talking about hundreds of lines then sure, I agree
that this would be a challenge, but then again I do have a computer and
while my iPhone is awesome and I can do lots of things with it, some things
are still done more efficiently on the computer and I would hazard a guess
and say that this holds true even for sighted people.
Regards,
Sieghard
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