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.
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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 <d...@xgam.org> 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.
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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 <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
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 <sm.ever...@gmail.com> 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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