I would never rely on SIRI. If you do, and you get into a situation in
which noise is either unwanted or is an interference, you must rely on
something else, probably some kind of keyboard. And I would rather use the
onscreen keyboard than lug another piece of equipment around. The onscreen
keyboard is a method that all smart phone users should learn, in my opinion.
---
Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished,
you! really! are! finished!
----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] xbox accessibility?
Hi Tom.
You might be correct on keyboards, however also bare in mind that at least
on Ios, you can use Siri to dictate (I think there is a similar function
on Android but I'm not sure).
I tend to dictate myself sinse it is much faster and easier than using the
on screen keyboard, even though Voiceover does handle the on screen
keyboard quite well.
Sinse Siri at least has also got to the point where you can for example
open aps, write and read messages, and check e-mails all by voice commands
I can see that sort of interface becoming more common in the future, which
will be a help for visually impared people, even if there are times when
you don't want to speak to your computer, like when your in a meeting or
(like now), when I have a severe throat infection.
Bad news of course for people who are deaf and blind, but as you said,
disabled consumers never get thought of anyway.
I personally don't see console access as being a thing that will ever
happen sinse even if there was say voice control, most information will
continue to be graphical simply because most people use their eyeballs for
most things, and it will always take a degree of wangling to represent
even the barely necessary graphical information to a visually impared
person, let alone the huge graphical 3D monstrosities most game companies
aim for.
As I've said before, I see independent developers who create audio games
as much for the same people who still enjoy audio dramas as for visually
impared people as the major future of where games are going, and what with
things like Somethinelse that seems to be happening more and more.
All the best,
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] xbox accessibility?
Hi Shaun,
That may be so, but we all know mainstream consumer products isn't
concerned with accessibility for blind consumers. That keyboard which
may in deed be the best access for a blind consumer is quickly and
rapidly vanishing from the consumer space and is now a optional device
rather than a mandatory one. Now days touchscreens are the primary
input device for smartphones, laptops, tablets, and several other
devices.
So don't get to attached to your keyboard because I don't see it
lasting for that much longer outside of an office environment.
On 3/28/15, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote:
I agree, for us blinks, the best access is a keyboard, and that means
a computer at least for now.
as voice recognition gets better that may become another big form,
touch I am not sure about.
---
Gamers mailing list __ [email protected]
If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to
[email protected].
You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at
http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org.
All messages are archived and can be searched and read at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected].
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the
list,
please send E-mail to [email protected].
---
Gamers mailing list __ [email protected]
If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to
[email protected].
You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at
http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org.
All messages are archived and can be searched and read at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected].
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the
list,
please send E-mail to [email protected].
---
Gamers mailing list __ [email protected]
If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected].
You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at
http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org.
All messages are archived and can be searched and read at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected].
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list,
please send E-mail to [email protected].
