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Originally Posted by Jazzetta
My father is 6'8", and his fingers are twice as thick as my thumb. He can not use my iPhone worth a hoot, even dialing is tricky for him. Stylus-type sticks do not help a bit since they are usually like 3 inches long. He says it's like trying to write with a toothpick. (They also don't work on the iPhone.)
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Perhaps your father could try using a capacitive stylus such as the BoxWave (available from Amazon), which will work on your iPhone.
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Originally Posted by Jazzetta
And they also make life more difficult on the visibly impaired ... good luck on feeling your way to the right spot on a touch screen w/out hitting anything else!
The only solution I can see would to have it barking out the name of every spot you touched, and having to do like a triple tap to open something and I think that would be too annoying for words.
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The iPad and iPhone do this (Apple calls it VoiceOver), and it doesn't seem to annoy these people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEDzitE2w_0
http://behindthecurtain.us/2010/06/1...th-the-iphone/
http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...ve.html?cat=15