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Steve Faulkner

⌨️ Nielsen Norman Group research on how screen-reader users type on and control mobile devices

“Summary: Users who are blind or have low vision prefer dictation over typing with a keyboard whenever possible. Screen readers on touchscreen devices are restricted to a well-defined set of gestures which makes interaction more challenging than on computers.”

#accessibility #usability #mobile #lowVision #blind

nngroup.com/articles/screen-re

3 comments
modulux

@SteveFaulkner Can confirm. I really dislike the phone for data entry.

mike805

@SteveFaulkner Given how good speech recognition has become, there should be an all-speech OS for non sighted use. AI is going to radically improve interaction in the near future. It should be possibly to automatically describe an image, for example.

Mayana

@SteveFaulkner Meanwhile I stubbornly stick to typing, even though it is painfully slow on Android (I wonder what makes TalkBack lag so much more than Voiceover), and have even disabled all autocorrect and suggestions.
It takes more time, but in the end it will be done right. I do not like the unreliability and weird mistakes of dictation. My speech isn't clear and english-accented enough for it. And even when reading messages from those for whom it works better, I can always tell dictation was used, because there's always these weird errors that a sighted typer would never make.
Besides, dictation would be far more impractical and annoying to others in public. With typing I can put on my headphones, turn the screen off, and write whatever I want, without anyone else hearing it.

@SteveFaulkner Meanwhile I stubbornly stick to typing, even though it is painfully slow on Android (I wonder what makes TalkBack lag so much more than Voiceover), and have even disabled all autocorrect and suggestions.
It takes more time, but in the end it will be done right. I do not like the unreliability and weird mistakes of dictation. My speech isn't clear and english-accented enough for it. And even when reading messages from those for whom it works better, I can always tell dictation was used,...

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