You must not know to many sighted people, because only those that
don't use computers peck at the keyboard. I can do from 120 to 180
words a min and i have ran into even kids, teens and adults that can
do higher than that. So looks like your very sheltered when it comes
to knowing what the sighted can and can't do or you just only observe
only what you want about the sighted. Kind of like selective hearing for some.
At 04:11 AM 4/1/2015, you wrote:
Hi Kara.
what I meant is that most sighted people do not naturally touch
type, they look at the keyboard and push individual keys with a
couple of fingers. Obviously this is not to say "all" certainly
anyone who has worked in a job revolving aroun taking dictation will
have the skills to do it including touch typing, it's just that your
average sighted person doesn't.
This means that for a sighted person, an on screen touch screen
keyboard and an actual keyboard aren't that different, and they'd
use them the same way, just point and press, which is why as I said
I see keyboards becoming a more specialist thing in the future, not
a standard input device, but not something that will entirely be
replaced by touch screens either sinse touch typing will still be
the fastest way of typing an making notes.
All the best,
Dark.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cara Quinn" <[email protected]>
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HI Dark,
You said:
most sighted people cannot actually touch type at anything like a
respectable speed, they just peer at the keys and press so aren't
that much slower than with a conventional keyboard
What do you mean about sighted people not being able to touch-type quickly?
Am I completely misunderstanding you here?
Thanks bunches!
Cara
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On Mar 29, 2015, at 8:38 AM, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
That is why I use dictation.
the problem however devin is most sighted people cannot actually
touch type at anything like a respectable speed, they just peer at
the keys and press so aren't that much slower than with a
conventional keyboard.
I suspect keyboards will always be around in some form, even if
just for taking notes or secretarial jobs simply because an
accomplished typist will always be faster than someone using a
touch screen, though as on ios, keyboard commands for actually
using the operating system probably won't be around for that long.
This is why I think it's going to fall into either using a
keyboard for specialist text in put, dictation or touch screen.
All the best,
Dark.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Devin Prater" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 4:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] xbox accessibility?
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.
Sent from my iPhone
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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