On Tue, 31 May 2005 16:13:01 +1200, Russell McMahon wrote:

>     http://trace.wisc.edu/docs/phones/tcrd1/tcrd1.htm

Interesting!  And a lot of its information should be used by phone designers anyway, regardless of the 
disabled angle, to make phones easier to use by anyone over 15!  :-)  In fact it's a good lesson in ergonomics 
for anyone designing any sort of controls - TV and VCR remotes, microwave ovens and so on.

They also seem to have invented the word "tactiley"...  :-)

I'm surprised they don't make the point that the connector should be suitable for placing the phone in a 
cradle which guides it into place.  The thing that always gets my goat is that connectors on things like 
phones are unidirectional but with often no way to tell which is the right way, except by trial and error.  
Why not make them bidirectional, so the orientation doesn't matter?  (This would be my criticism of USB plugs 
too - if you can't see the socket, as is usually the case with the rear sockets of a tower or desktop machine, 
it's a question of fiddling with it until it goes in).  I'm not disabled, just clumsy...

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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