Friday, April 15, 2011

Evaluation with UOC Blind Association President

A simple demonstration was held at the ADMTC to the blind association president of UOC: Mr Asoka. This is the first instance we tried the horizontal and the vertical application of the environment. The other tests were completely based on the horizontal orientation on the same subject.
During the comparison Mr. Asoka pointed out that, it is inappropriate to generate sounds from the rear. He was startled when the sounds started emerging from the rear. The non blind were not surprised because the saw the rear speakers at the beginning. We were unable to blindfold the non blind because it seems that touch typing is rare with non blind.
And he claimed that vertical was far better than the horizontal orientation.
Though he said that the layout information is irrelevant for the blind, we strongly believe his idea is based on the current capabilities of screen readers, and not of the future expansion possibilities.
Mr. Asoka identified the table structures directly without any assistance. The term 'table', was used by the subject without us, implying anything.
He compared the table we presented with HTML tables, since he is a PHP developer.
Suggested use of our concept is to introduce the positioning to blind developers, who are incapable of knowing the location of the interface objects (swing buttons, labels etc.). Dr Prasad met Mr. Asoka as well.

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