[Xlog-discussion] idea for usability

[Eric S. Johansson]

I was talking with a friend of mine who is blind (ky1b) and he was 
lamenting the inability to use spots with his screen reader specially 
during contests.  It struck me that the problem wasn't with the screen 
reader but with the user interface he had for viewing and accessing spots.

I started thinking that if he had a dial like a radio dial, instead of 
hearing signals from the air, he heard instead speech reading out call 
signs and may be frequencies of the spots, he could then use a simple to 
button interface on top of that dial to move his radio to that spot 
frequency and then record the entry in the log automagically.

Thinking about a way to simulate this, one could use the scroll wheel on 
a mouse to simulate the tuning dial on the spot display and left mouse 
button could trigger the radio frequency movement and the right button 
would load the log entry.

It's just a rough idea but it strikes me that it's also much friendlier 
for sighted people as well.

---eric

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Speech recognition in use.  Incorrect endings, words, and case is
closer than it appears