I aggree with you in part, but not fully.
Does anyknow or has anyone researched how long it takes us to catch up period?
True ms is giving people a fair go, nvda is already going to the
metro system I see it on the list, however, to be honest, for what we
pay or are forced to pay for the comercial readers myself I wander
how we can keep up.
how will we afford something.
I am not talking about the new borns, all the current to future
generations will more than likely take it as standard and be able to
handle it all.
Its like the people that were dos guys to those that just used an
icon interface.
Now if something majorly goes wrong, just put a disk in and a
reformat later its all fixed as reformatting always fixes things.
Those people don't have time to worry.
How for old fullas like myself I must say I am slightly scared of the
touch screen, not against it but scared.
THe keyboard for me is the way to go but then I used it always.
If I were born again, i'd get a braille computer and a mac, windows
would be a vertual machine maybe but I'd have a mac maybe a touch
screen because it rocks.
However I started with dos and now windows and have invested to much
to go back.
Its doubt for falas like me that we will find it easy to change to
what is a unknow and forign viewpoint.
Sure it probably makes sence I have no doubt that it does and I am
sure once we are adapted to the new borg we will be happy in our function.
However we are not borg and therefore it will take ages if at all for
some of us to adapt.
I plan to go 7 at some point but still keep an xp box.
I don't need to upgrade my phone and even if I do, its more than
likely it will be an older tech third dition nokia once again with
the hundred buck reader on it because for what I use it for I need little else.
That will change though.
If I can comfortably read the screen like everyone else then fine.
One thing I'd really like to do is view things like the sighted,
pictures be announced, mouse movement feadback, etc.
To play a sighted game, etc.
This touch screen technology will probably develop that we can do
that along with the ocr tech and we should be able to handle it.
There are now bounds.
Right now though the funds to buy all this stuff unless it becomes cheaper.
screen readers bar nvda are excluded and also voice synths.
Then there is the power vs need.
Its doubtfull where I am that I will need anymore than a core2 unit
with 2gb ram running old windows xp.
And unless life takes a big leap foreward I will be running xp till I
die or as long as I can get it.
maybe 7 but sertainly not 8 or over unless it improves.
I guess once keyboards are dropped to a secondary device that will change.
However we were perfectly happy in dos.
back then it was special environments for the blind.
Though I don't care for segrigation by any means the way things are
all going we need to decide if we even need the main stream oses anymore.
It may be time to go back to a cut down os just for the blind at
least for the short term.
Then again I may be totally wrong.
This is the first major leap where we don't need to worry about whats
on the screen and how its displayed but what we input.
We either can try to incoperate it into what we do or just make sence of it.
I do aggree that its time we catch up with android google chrome os
and apple though.
I wander how they do that in ubuntu, and how the vinux system will handle it.
At 07:38 a.m. 22/04/2012 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Bryan,
Not only that, but I don't think we have much of a choice. I've seen
the way Windows 8, Ubuntu Linux 12.04, etc are going and most of the
software developers are moving to a touchscreen type user interface.
Everyone and their uncle is copying Apple's iOS design and that can
only mean that the mainstream market is preparing to add touchscreen
technology to a wide range of technologies including the next
generation desktops, laptops, and netbooks. No matter how much we
love or hate touchscreens I see them becoming a standard input
device over the next ten years if not sooner. Rather than
complaining about it I think we should do our best to adapt to them,
and our efforts should be focused on making sure the new technology
is as accessible as it can be.
On 4/21/2012 2:00 PM, bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote:
I think you're missing the point though. Touch screens are cheaper
to make and qite frankl last longer since eventually buttons will
give out. My laptop for instance is missing te Tab key. Besides,
now tat it's been proven that touch screens CAN be made accessible
I can see a big leap forward in terms of our technology.
Are you threatening me? I am the great Cornholio! I come from Lake Titicaca!
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