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Anything that requires the use of a smartphone discriminates a bit against the large group that is the most reliable voting block in most western democracies: p
by MandieD 3y ago
Anything that requires the use of a smartphone discriminates a bit against the large group that is the most reliable voting block in most western democracies: people over 70. Yes, lots of them have and fluently use smartphones, but plenty of them don't, and most smartphone interfaces are awful for anyone with less steady hands and diminishing near vision.
To me, this is a coordination problem: how to get very technical privacy enthusiasts working together with older people who only wish to be allowed to keep getting around their normal worlds in a way they fully understand. We want what we want for very different reasons, but what we want ends up being effectively the same things.
- lynx23 3y ago> awful for anyone with less steady hands and diminishing near vision You are obviously right when it comes to lack of steady hands, but diminishing near vision is no reason not to use a smartphone. In fact, speech synthesis is what kept blind people mostly functioning in this new world. IOW, if you no longer can see the screen, turn on your smartphones screen reader. Android and Apple both have them built in these days, so you dont even have to buy anything extra.