3 July 2008
Able-bodied consumers make similar mistakes when using mobile telephones as disabled people do when using computers, according to research. The University of Manchester study, given funding by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, said that errors are regular. Actions carried out by mobile users include hitting the wrong part of the screen, pressing the same place numerous times inaccurately and moving data to the wrong place, officials noted. Senior Researcher on the study Dr Yeliz Yesilada stated that impaired individuals are prone to making these misjudgments. "But solutions have been developed for all of these problems in the form of small assistive computer programmes which supplement Windows and Mac operating systems," she commented. Another one of the researchers, Tianyi Chen, added that the technology implemented to try and help out disabled people may be extended to able-bodied consumers. In America earlier this year, KNFB Reading Technology was set to uncover the Reader Mobile product, which it said enables disabled people to take pictures and read small print.
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