If your fingers are sensitive enough, you can also often feel the
indentations where one button ends and another begins. Bare in mind
that these are not true touchscreens, they are flat keypads.
Underneath the flat surface is a button that requires minimal force to
activate. A touch screen, by contrast, is a surface that can be
touched on any portion of the screen, and the item at the point you
touched is activated, it is not a flat surface over a few mechanical
buttons. The touchscreen will change depending on the input required,
therefore braille labels are useless on true touch screens.
On Jan 28, 2009, at 11:00, Chris Smart wrote:
At 05:40 AM 1/28/2009, you wrote:
Stupid question of the month from someone who never used touch
screens, how do you access the microwaves touch screens if you can't
see the controls?
Why not get some sighted help to mark the button with braille
labels, bits of tape, or whatever else will give you something to
feel?
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