[bookport] Re: My suggestion about tactile markings
- From: "Richard Ring" <ring.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 16:15:10 -0500
If you are truly having that much difficulty installing the batteries,
perhaps you should find yourself some technology that is less complex.
I am totally blind and I have had no trouble installing the batteries or
using the head buds.
I don't expect blindness products to insult my intelligence, I expect
them to bring some kind of functionality to me that I would not
otherwise have access to. The Bookport does this, I'm sorry you find
these minor inconveniences so insurmountable; as for the rest of us we
like our Bookports!
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[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Anthony
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 3:39 AM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] My suggestion about tactile markings
My point about the headphones was not that people didn't like them or
found them difficult to use, it is about aph and good design of
equipment for people who can't see. Both the headphones and batteries
can be used the wrong way round and as this equipment is designed for
people who can't see the print markings on the headphones or the symbols
in the battery compartment surely aph should have have had enough
experience to have thought about this issue and got it right.
Also external speaker The belt clip might not be such a good idea but I
don't want to use speakers from radio shack as someone suggested
basically because I don't want lots of extra wires all over the place.
There are times when the unit being equiped with a speaker might be of
use. I came across a device called a griffin for an apple ipod, if you
don't know what it is basically it is a small box with a 3.5 hack
sticking out of the bottom of it and it sits on top of the ipod, it
makes the unit a bit longer. I haven't tried one as I don't have an
ipod but I would think aph could design something similar that when
installed would look as if it was part of the bookport, they could
either put a dummy usb plug to stop the speaker more stability or put a
real usb plug with a socket in the top of the box so you could still
plug in the usb cable with the speaker atached.
Anthony
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