Preception and reality

[BrokenQuill92]

I'm finding everyone else's ideas amazing!

[max-greece]

Well I just had a trippy experience.

I enabled talk-back on my Nexus 7 - did the full tutorial and then had a go. Frankly being able to see is actually a disadvantage as you keep forgetting that all the controls are different. I tried it with my eyes closed and it works but it would take a lot of getting used to. I kept forgetting the instructions. I also have no idea how similar they are to the ones on the iPad.

Typing is weird too. You let your finger skate across the on screen keyboard until you find the right letter and then you lift off - which seems very counter-intuitive to me.

I also tried dictation. It works fine when the internet is clear and the room is quiet but with my daughter streaming video (and the consequent background noise) its a disaster.

Overall I am astonished that a tablet is usable for a blind person and that this functionality is built in. Really amazing - take my hat off to you though - its quite the learning curve.

[thesummerqueen]

You let your finger skate across the on screen keyboard until you find the right letter and then you lift off - which seems very counter-intuitive to me.

Not really if you've ever used the slide keyboards - they enter in letters basing on you pausing longer on them.

[max-greece]

You let your finger skate across the on screen keyboard until you find the right letter and then you lift off - which seems very counter-intuitive to me.

Not really if you've ever used the slide keyboards - they enter in letters basing on you pausing longer on them.

I do use the slide keyboard but somehow this is very different. I don't think the slide keyboard uses pauses as much as direction changes but I might be wrong.