Also, I think that if the touch screen is to be made the default input device, 
I think screen readers have got to step up their imagining of how a blind 
person would input text into the touch screen. Sure, braille input is nice, but 
let's face a little bitty fact, braille is slower than typing. A lot slower.

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> On Mar 28, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Thomas Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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