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Very nice article effectively. But accessibility is not only good for old people or ones with a visual disability. I discussed with a 16 year old a couple of w
by Loic 17y ago
Very nice article effectively. But accessibility is not only good for old people or ones with a visual disability.
I discussed with a 16 year old a couple of weeks ago and asked what she though about the iPhone and the Nokia (she had a Nokia in hands).
She did only one thing in front of me: Unlocked her phone, wrote an SMS, sent it, everything without even having a glance at the screen. Then she smiled, looked at me and said "Can you do it with an iPhone?".
Me: speechless and lesson learned.
- rimantas 17y agohttp://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html
- gloob 17y agoThat is a useful replacement for tactile feedback in the same way that this http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-laptop-with-no,14299/ http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary... is a useful replacement for a keyboard.
- rimantas 17y agoHow does tactile feedback help to read for the blind?
- Isofarro 17y ago"Can you do it with an iPhone?" Yes, the blind community are quite positive about their iPhone experiences. Last month, Artur Ortega, an accessibility evangelist at Yahoo, demonstrated how he uses an iphone in every day life. Effectively the touchscreen is a big thumb-pad, and using easy to understand gestures he is able to use most of the functionality on the phone, including the Safari browser. The main limitation of the iPhone, currently, is the inaccessibility of the Facebook application. Pity since the first Facebook app on the iPhone had decent accessibility. Apple have done an interesting job on iphone accessibility. It's one of the rare devices where the screen reader is built into the operating system, thus essentially free.