I ent a good hour or so this morning without my gla es. The little plastic nosie-thing fell off and I had to wait while a new plastic nosie-thing got i talled. During that time, I was pretty much blind as a bat--a uming that bats are legally blind, extremely myopic, astigmatic, and can only see the world as one huge blur.
So I got to thinking. The new iPhone, with its completely sleek surface, how usele will that thing be for the visually impaired? Me, I can usually stick my eye up reaaaaaally close to something (a uming I can get my nose out of the way) and see what's going on but for anyone with worse vision (or a le foldable nose), the iPhone is going to be really hard to use. (Contrast this with the 5G iPod, which I can operate by touch, often in my pocket.)
So I googled for blind and iPhone, but didn't find much out there on Web search, and just a few hits here and there on blog search. Surely, there must be some usability experts out there willing to weigh in on the Universal Acce a ects of the iPhone and the lack thereof. Thoughts?
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