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Really needs an automated solution to drop the volume of the event feed a little when either of the presenters are speaking. I found it difficult at times to hear what Rosemary was saying when there was an event presenter also speaking, with a tonally similar voice.
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I agree, it was great coverage, but understanding Rosemary and Mikah was difficult at time - especially as I have a disorder where my brain can’t differentiate who is speaking, I hear the different voices and know who is talking, but my brain interprets all the incoming words as a serial stream and can’t associate them with a given voice.
I have problems at home, which annoys my wife, when we are watching TV and she starts talking, I register she is talking, but the words disappear into the flood of words coming from the TV and I have to ask her to repeat what she said.
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I will admit that I completely forgot about the Apple event. Listening to people talking after the fact, and it’s like, “Come on, Apple, there’s no reason you can’t put another notch at the bottom of the phone so you can have a redesigned home button with Touch ID for the dumb visually impaired guy who can’t wrap his brain around not having a home button.” I mean, literally, to the point where I don’t give a [string of bad words] about anything they announce
They already do, it is called the iPhone SE… And if you are visually impaired, you probably use the dictation features a lot, so the smaller screen might not be a problem. (The last visually impaired person I worked with had a microscope like device that had a macro camera pointing at a plate on his desk and when he placed a piece of paper on it, it showed the text in 20cm high letters on the attached screen, so an SE or a 16 or 16 Plus isn’t going to make much difference to him, he would see less than one character on the biggest of those screens. Another used a larger tablet as a phone, because he could just about make out the characters on its larger screen.)
Obviously there are different levels of impairment, from totally blind to not being able to see without glasses - I fall into the latter category, although I can just about make out the writing on the screen if I squint when not wearing my glasses - and some will find a larger screen with home button useful.