I'll give up my keyboard and command-line when you young whipper snappers pry them from my cold, dead fingers. Joking aside, I'm actually a millennial myself and suspect I'm actually one of the younger members on this list. Still, even when I counted myself among the sighted, which wasn't even five years ago, I thought touchscreens a nice supplement to keyboards and gaming controls, but a piss-poor replacement for proper buttons. I loved the touchscreen on my DS, 3DS, and PSVita, but my smartphone often left me wishing the slide out keyboard was larger(I couldn't touch type on it because the keys were so small and close together) and that it had more than one face button when the keyboard was recessed. Also didn't like that I couldn't use a mechanical pencil as a dumb stylus on my smartphone like I could on my DS(damn capacitive touchscreens not noticing plastic scraping against their surface). That said, I'd love for touchscreens with electrostatic vibration to become as ubiquitous as normal touchscreens already are. If you haven't heard, electrostatic vibration allows a charged surface covered in a thin insulator to simulate various textures, and adding this to a touchscreen allows for tactile output. A relevant Wikipedia article can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrovibration And Disney is doing research under the trademark Tesla Touch. I found out about it from an article in a recent issue of Choice Magazine Listening, and it struck me as something with potential to both make technology more accessible to the blind and become mainstream enough ww won't have to pay a premium for devices featuring it. In the meantime, I'm going to stick with devices that have physical keyboards. -- Sincerely, Jeffery Wright President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa. Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list