[Electronics-Talk] phones switching icon locations, plus general comments

[Sandra Streeter]

So, my ‘Droid, a Samsung Galaxy Core Prime, switches the location of icons (at least in its current mode of operation); a sighted friend’s Motorola also does.

As to ensuring we’re considered when manufacturers plan and manufacture appliances, this is why I’m so committed to NFB philosophy: we are about changing the old, archetypal thinking about blindness that engenders such ignorance/prejudice in most sighted people who don’t know a blind person trained in alternative techniques. What really gets me is, we have a rapidly-aging population with vision issues, and appliance manufacturers are not thinking of them, so it reinforces the thinking that they already have, about blindness being equal with dependence—if the manufacturers would add accommodations, then we could whittle away at some of the dependence-oriented mindsets our seniors face (under the average influences). And, I think that accessibility has definitely been conceived of as wheelchair accessibility and not much else, in the mind of the average product developer... It is hard to get our voices heard, as a low-incidence disability, too.

Try pairing blindness with Aspergers—it gets even more fun! While smartphones may be equipped with blindness features, sometimes those very features pose a problem for people with my neurology; the system sounds in TalkBack really annoy me—they are startling for me.



Sandra

Not “Revelation” – tis – that waits
But our unfurnished eyes –
(Emily Dickinson)

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