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Has this talk with a friend, but it was actually centered around accessibility of technology for older people (or less technologically-inclined people, if you m
by et-al 8y ago
Has this talk with a friend, but it was actually centered around accessibility of technology for older people (or less technologically-inclined people, if you must).
If Jobs had aged, needed reading glasses, and maybe had Parkinson's, would there be more of a push towards making devices easier to use? Would Siri be more functional?
I know Jitterbug exists, but it seems almost insulting. (If anyone has used one and feels otherwise, please share.)
- scarface74 8y agoApple already goes out of its way to make the iPhone accessible.
- ashleyn 8y agoIn his biography, Jobs bemoaned the utilitarian brutalism of the medical devices he relied on in his final years of life. He absolutely would've oversaw the development of slicker accessibility.
- mikestew 8y agoIf Jobs had aged, needed reading glasses, and maybe had Parkinson's, would there be more of a push towards making devices easier to use? There are accessibility settings on iOS that mitigate every one of those items (and more), and iOS has consistently been one of the most, if not the most, accessible phones out there . What specifically are you looking for?
- fragmede 8y agoI want an iPad sized machine that displays as much as an iPhone, and I want an iPhone who's home screen has 2x3 grid of icons instead of ever-so-slightly bigger 4x5 icons when zooming is turned on. Thankfully Android allows for alternate launchers, even though some icons are horribly ugly. Would Apple ever admit to doing something functional-yet-ugly?