[Elecraft] The case against touch screens

[Doug Person]

Voice response. Voice modules have been available for various rigs for 
sometime. They don't listen and do what you ask. But they will read the 
S-meter, tell you what frequency/band you're one. It with be technically 
easy to build a small option box that would handle a voice interface. If 
a web server is built into a radio, a voice interface could be managed 
as a web app. There are many possibilities.

Doug -- KJ0F

On 3/25/2019 11:02 AM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> Touch screens do not provide support for blind amateur operators. 
> Elecraft has always said they will provide support for blind operators.
> I just wonder how touchscreens fit into that commitment.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 3/25/2019 11:18 AM, Buddy Brannan wrote:
>> While those are certainly advantages, there are several 
>> disadvantages. Number 1 on my personal hit parade: they aren’t 
>> tactile. You have to look at them to operate them. Which means, for 
>> you, another distraction. For me, it means extra support (think 
>> VoiceOver on iOS, Talkback on Android, VoiceView on the Amazon Fire 
>> things). So far, none of the ham radio manufacturers has implemented 
>> anything like that, and so touch screen interfaces on a lot of stuff 
>> are out of my reach, as it were. Of course, knobs and switches and 
>> buttons have the advantage of being able to be manipulated without 
>> having to see where they are. 
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73 de Doug -- KJ0F