Hej Julien, Much thanks for that information. Gives some perspective for new thinking. And that the "bad guys" are capable of some really neat innovations. :) I skimmed the other thread and saw that audio applications, not surprisingly, were mostly unusable though... Regards, Robert 2011/4/20 Julien Claassen <julien@xxxxxxxx>: > Hello Robert! > Well this thread is already no longer on-topic, that's why I renamed it > slightly. :-) > It really started with the iPhones. At least, there I noticed it for the > first time. they only have their touchscreen, like many other smart phones > nowadays. So apple released their screenreader VoiceOver. They use different > gestures, like take two fingers and pull them down on the display ad the > volume is lowered. You can use your finger to move across the full screen > and read element after elemtn to you or you can activate a mode, where you > can jump ahead to every next element. So they actually started getting fame > from their phones and now they use the same system available for the > notebooks. You can use the pad - as I udnerstand - to make your gestures and > use the different modes to jump across the screen, find things, activate > them and so on. there are many more ideas to make it easier. And I've heard, > that more and more blind people change to iPhones or ipod touch, because > they like it and can be very fast with them, if they have to be. It takes > some learning, but it always takes learning, to adapt to an assistive > technology. You always have to get to know the OS and then the logic behind > the accessibility software. So I guess that's fair enough. :-) > I never used them myself though. Not a mobile phone person and I can't > afford any notebook, not to speak of expensive macbooks. :-) Anyway, a > desktop is more reliable in the long run and can be more powerful. For the > time being I'm happy to have no mobile system. > Warm regards > Julien > > -------- > Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) > > ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== > http://ltsb.sourceforge.net > the Linux TextBased Studio guide > ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= > http://www.juliencoder.de > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
