Yes that is correct! Talks has been working with Touch screen phones for a
long time. Well that being a few years at least.
As far as multy touch jesters, no screen reader on the Symbian side of
things will allow you to do them. I would guess this is for the same reason
as I already gave. Also each screen reader has implamented there own way of
dealing with the touch screen. Talks has went down the road as far as
keeping the touch screen usable by a sighted person if they happen to pick
up your phone and not having to turn off Talks. I'm not saying I agree with
this way of doing things! But for a VERY LIMITED amount of people who may
use only 1 phone for the whole family and only 1 person is blind this
probably works OK. However for most people, I don't think this is the case
as far as them sharing a phone with sighted people.
I would like to see Talks put in code that would allow people to use
different types of input as far as using the touch screen like other screen
readers.
Signed: Stephen Giggar
Skype: dr-phone.
Hardware eventually fails, software eventually works.
No amount of bandwidth can fix poor design.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Keller" <[email protected]>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Talks] An idea for talks development
talks already does work with some touch screen devices. This has been true
for some time, just can't remember what version was the first with this
capability.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paulo Augusto" <[email protected]>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Talks] An idea for talks development
Interesting.
Nowadays it seems like there will be no phones except the touch screen
ones.
Hughe companies such as nokia, apple and samsung might know if touch
screens will be the techonolgie that will kill buttoms forever or buttoms
will come back one day in the future.
If buttoms will be dead in the next technologies I guess nuance will need
to develop talks for touch screen sooner or later.
If we will all be forced to use touch screens in the future, another
possibility for those who are not braillists is to have the letters
written or drawn on the touch screen with our fingertips, using visual
forms.
The ideal would be to have both options: braille writing and visual
writing.
But if google and microsoft are now offering new tablets with keyboards,
maybe cell phones can have buttoms again.
Complex matter.
Of course I'm suggesting it all just for future developments. Like the
majority of talks users I still use a buttom technology.
Regards, Paulo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Giggar" <[email protected]>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Talks] An idea for talks development
No this will not work as far as keeping things so that they work with
older phones. YES the newer phones can handle multy touch but the older
phones like the N97 and the like can not. So I don't see any screen
reader doing this for the reason I gave. It would then make the software
so that it may ahve issues with older phones. I'm sorry to say! I think
there are many more people using older phones then newer ones at this
point in time.
Signed: Stephen Giggar
Skype: dr-phone.
Hardware eventually fails, software eventually works.
No amount of bandwidth can fix poor design.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paulo Augusto" <[email protected]>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:07 PM
Subject: [Talks] An idea for talks development
Hi listers,
I've had an idea that maybe can help our problems with touch screen
equipments.
Maybe it's not a new idea but if it is, lets think about.
The touch screen could be divided, for example, in 8 rectangles, 4 in
the left and other 4 in the right. If we touch the square 1 the
application understands letter A.
If we touch square 1 and 2 simultaneously, it means we have pressed
letter B.
Now the question for talks developers is:
Can a touch screen receive several touches simultaneously?
For instance, if I want to write the letter l I need to touch the
squares 1, 2 and 3.
If touch screens can get multiple touches at the same time, it may
become a nice access for us.
If so, the screen can be divided in different ways like 5 cells on the
left side and 5 cells on the right.
The 6 upper cells can be used to braille pattern writting and the other
four cells can be used for other signals such as space bar, backspace,
enter and so on.
But if touch screen systems still don't accept multiple touches, maybe
the next generations of touch screens will work out this way.
Regards, Paulo
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