On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Matt Campbell mattcampbell@pobox.com wrote:
Anyway, it seems to me that if sighted people can have their 7-inch tablets for content consumption, it's not totally unreasonable to want a computer housing that's optimized for the way blind people work.
actually at this point i'd be more interested in doing a simple housing for partially-sighted people than i would a 7in tablet. the reason is that just as you say, it's a specialist community that would appreciate it more.
the 7in tablet market, people are going to compare an EOMA68 7in tablet housing against... a mass-produced 7in tablet. they're going to see the extra cost and the extra thickness, and conclude "that's utterly rubbish!!!!".
whereas people in the partially-sighted market who are getting proprietary high-priced crud would be *really grateful* for something that is clearly a long-term cost-saving investment as opposed to a throw-away device. they'll go "huh, i can upgrade this later... oh, and i can transfer the *actual computer* to a bigger device which someone who *does* have good sight can help me out... or i can transfer the *actual computer* into a device with a huge LCD on it".
i'm referencing this discussion here on http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/partially_sighted_handheld/ but could i ask you a favour and to fill that in with a bit of the specs of things that people *actually want* - or if there is some community that you know of, reach out to them and ask them "what do you *really* want to have?"
Now, having written that rather long-winded message, that's probably all I'll say on this subject, unless I eventually put in the time to improve GNU/Linux desktop accessibility. Anyway, I hope this was of some interest to some people on this list.
*yes*.
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