Or perhaps Shredder was turned into a chain-smoking frog? LOL.
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
-----Original Message-----
From: dark
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 1:39 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] xbox accessibility?
That is true charlse, however I wouln't say myself you need to "learn the on
screen keyboard"
If you can type, or just swipe through letters you can use the thing, the
problem is that it is just time consuming to use. It's okay if you only have
to type your ap store password or put your name into a game or write a web
address, but when your used to typing at roughly the same speed you would
speak, it's just way too time consuming to bother with anything long.
Indeed a friend of mine just phoned me, but because due to said bloody awful
throat infection I still sound rather like a cross between a chain smoking
frog and shredder from the Ninja turtles I didn't answer the phone, but
instead e-mailed her on my laptop, sinse there was no way I would write
either a text message or an e-mail to her explaining the circumstances just
with the on screen keyboard.
This is why if I have to write anything more than about five words I just go
with Siri if I can, ---- assuming I don't have my bluetooth keyboard handy
of course.
all the best,
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Rivard" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] xbox accessibility?
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.
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----- 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.
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