As a visually impaired user I would advocate against a touch screen based UI. These radios were designed to encode and decode digital voice but accessibility was not designed into them and a touch screen based UI would make the radios less accessible than they are currently and that's strictly speaking not much. Besides price, the most often heard complaint from other blind amateurs is that the radios are not accessible without being tied to a PC and screen reader for programming of settings other than VFO settings. So, lets not just focus on visually pleasing interfaces because there are a large number of amateurs who would be excluded by such narrowly focused design changes. Ray T. Mahorney M0WGA WA4WGA
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Koltner" <zapwire-gro...@yahoo.com> To: <dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 6:13 PM Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: The big DStar breakthrough needs to be ... Hi John, These are good comments and I generally agree with them. I'll add a few thoughts of my own here...
