[nfb-talk] A Double Tap to the Touch Screen Devil's Head

[Jack Heim]

One thing occured to me, did the OP encounter an actual touch screen in 
an elevator? The old digital touch pad is a different technology. Your 
microwave oven probably has a touch pad, not a touch screen. The touch 
pad can be made accessible by stamping  raised markings into the plastic 
cover that goes over the switches underneath. A touch screen has to have 
some kind of screen reader. I wouldn't be shocked if they started 
putting touch screens in elevators. I would imagine the price of that 
technology has fallen greatly lately and it probably wouldn't be much 
compared to the price of the elevator as a whole.

Not to get too political but it seems to me that we might have some 
difficulty even getting existing regulations enforced on something like 
that. The ADA requires that elevators have braille but there are 
probably loopholes. Who knows what kind of legal battle you'd have to 
fight to get a screen reader on an elevator touch screen.




On 03/28/2017 07:11 PM, Mark Tardif via nfb-talk wrote:
> I'm still a stuborn probably soon to be lone soldier against the touch
> screen hordes coming to conquer and spread their tyranny.  Even if I am
> the last man down, I will never surrender!!!
>
>
>
> Mark Tardif
> Nuclear arms will not hold you.
> -----Original Message----- From: Joe via nfb-talk
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> Subject: [nfb-talk] A Double Tap to the Touch Screen Devil's Head
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> In the battle between touch screens and tactile buttons, the touch
> screen is
> quickly becoming the reigning champion. It's not that I can't see the
> advantages of touch screens. Less moving parts means less maintenance and
> all that, but dammit, it used to be I only had to worry about touch screens
> where warming food was concerned. Slap a tactile dot here, a Braille label
> there, and I could conquer the basic operations of a microwave.
>
> Once while on travel for work I met the enemy at a fancy hotel. I strolled
> from the hotel registration desk to the bank of elevators as if I was a
> frequent guest of the swanky resort. I even hit the bank of elevators on my
> first try like the super blind traveler that I was, but then the elevator
> doors whispered open. I walked in and reached for the familiar panel of
> buttons with accompanying Braille numbers. Only, the travel gods felt I had
> enjoyed enough arrogance for one day, because instead of neat rows of
> buttons, my fingers skated across a smooth panel.
>
> Read and comment on the rest of the article here:
>
> http://joeorozco.com/blog_a_double_tap_to_the_touch_screen_devils_head
>
> Best,
>
> Joe
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