Hi Damien,
I understand the fact you don't like touchscreens very much, say you hate them, but I'd like to know why you think Apple is conning the law. Aside from yourself many blind users own and use iPhones with no problems at all and as Cara pointed out on the list a few days ago there is more than 1,400 blind users on the iPhone mailing list. That tells me contrary to conning the law many blind users are quite happy with the level of accessibility with their iPhones.
I don't want to sound rude or condescending, but it sounds like because you personally have problems using iPhones then you are effectively saying the same is true for everyone else. That's not true. Its not a matter of conquering the device, but simply learning from other blind users techniques they use to access their iPhone. Perhaps if you had hands on training from a fellow blind iPhone user you would be able to figure it out by asking questions and having someone there to show you a better way of doing this or that. Its like anything else. We learn through reading tutorials or having hands on training if we just don't get it.
Cheers! On 4/21/2012 1:25 PM, Damien Pendleton wrote:
Hi Dark, If I were to go into my deepest thoughts about touch screen, I'd have to ban myself for profanity. Trust it to say, I hate them with a passion and think that adding voiceover to a touch screen device is just another corrupt twisted pro sighted business way of conning the law and getting away with discrimination. The fact that so many VI people have found a way to conquer that is rather impressive to me, and if that's the case, then so be it. But I think it's rather unnecessary to have to do that when the business itself should make more of an effort. Just because they don't know we exist, or choose to believe we don't exist, doesn't make us go away. And if companies continue to design things in their own eye happy way, in another twenty or thirty years it's probably unlikely we'd be able to use anything in the mainstream market and we'll be right back to square one with specially designed excessively expensive products and the like. That's only my opinion, I know tons of you won't agree, but this debate goes slightly away from games so I don't want this to turn into a full blown argument as to which is the best operating system to work with. That's me off my soapbox now. Regards, Damien.
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