Re: [LAU] Music app accessibility (Was: Re: Editing zynadsuxfx/yoshimi patches?)

From: S. Massy <lists@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Apr 20 2011 - 22:19:48 EEST

Hello,

Yes, some people are beginning to explore solutions to the touchscreen
accessibility problems, and some people are even coming up with
reasonably good ones: Apple are among them, and so are some of the
android developers. I've never tried VoiceOver on IOS, but I do hear
good things about it.

Unlike Julien, after a period of resistance, I gave into the smartphone
wave, and I'm fairly glad I did, since, for the first time, I have an
extremely mobile set-up as a writer (Bluetooth keyboard and braille
display connected to my Symbian phone running quickoffice).
<shameless-self-advertising> If anyone would care to learn more about
this, I started a blog a few months ago discussing some of the issues
faced by blind people, on which there is an article about smarphones and
their implications to us:
http://inperspextive.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/getting-smart/
It's meant to be a three part series, and I intend to discuss some of
the other issues which came up in the course of this thread as well.
</shameless-self-advertising>

Anyway, this thread has gotten way off-topic and it's probably time to
drop the ball. But, to end on a positive note, I would like to add that
general accessibility has vastly improved over the last couple of years,
with things like VoiceOver built into all Apple products, Orca rendering
most GTK/ATK applications accessible, and at least a bit of
accessibility work being done on Andreoid platforms. It's only when one
comes to specialised software, such as DAWs, that things fall apart.

Cheers,
S.M.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 07:33:13PM +0200, Julien Claassen wrote:
> 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
>
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