On Sep 23, 2009, at 5:46 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
> > Well it's the same over here in Sweden. I was at an assistive > technology show last monday and showed the phone to a vendor and some > blind folks here and the response was basically that yes, the phone > has speech, but blind people shouldn't use touch screens at all and it > was just an interface for design and the fact that people switched was > because it was new and blind people shall use buttons and not anything > else, and why would people want a device this big? and the like. > Sometimes i wonder why i bother talking about the hottest thing in > accessibility in a long time when people just consider me a non- > representative nerd. I can't help thinking well, let them have their > bloatware, at least i have seen the light... but it's probably wrong > to think like that. > /Krister One other thing I think about is, that now that iphone is accessible, I wonder how many people will start using the trackpad features of VO on laptops. That'll give 'em more rubbish generation. > > > 23 sep 2009 kl. 11.02 skrev ben mustill-rose: > >> >> Sadly, this does seem to be the opinion of people that have not tried >> the device. I would have hoped that since peter knows that his show >> is >> quite popula he would have at least sat down with it for a day or so >> and got to kno it. If infact he has done this and still thinks its >> inaccessable, whilst I can't see why he does, its still an eduicated >> opinion and I don't see anything wrong with this. It seems that >> people >> here "touch screen" and dismiss the phone instantly. >> >> On 23/09/2009, william lomas <lomaswill...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>> hi for those who can listen to the In Touch listen again from >>> last >>> night, on bbc radio 4 >>> they are saying the IPHone is totally inaccessible why do they not >>> give apple credit, where it is due >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Kind regards, BEN. >> >> email: bmustillr...@gmail.com >> msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com >> web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) >> >>> > > > > Egun On, Lagunak! (Basque for G'day, Mates) Pete Nalda http://www.myspace.com/musikonalda --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
