Benjamin Levicek Technological devices are becoming an integral part of our lives, and this is doubly true for the visually impaired. Many are thinking about what devices to buy for work and content consumption and usually stick with the phone and computer. I often get asked what is the point of using a tablet specifically for me as a completely blind person, when I don't really care how big the screen is in front of me, and in pure theory I could just use a smartphone for easier writing and work? However, the answer to why buying an iPad is important even for a blind person is quite simple.
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iOS is not the same system as iPadOS
First of all, I want to talk about what most iPad owners already know very well. In the first half of 2019, the Californian giant came with the iPadOS system, which is intended only for Apple tablets. He separated the segment from the system for smartphones, and I personally think it was the right decision. Not only did it rework multitasking, where in addition to two applications side by side you can have two or more windows of the same application open, it also reworked the Safari browser, which currently behaves like a full-fledged desktop application in the iPadOS version.
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Another benefit of iPadOS is third-party applications. The developers thought that the iPad's screen is larger, so it is naturally expected that you will be more productive on a tablet than on a phone. Whether it is the office package iWork, Microsoft Office or software for working with music, it is not very comfortable to work with these applications on the iPhone even blindly, but this is certainly not true of the iPad, on which you can do almost the same in certain applications as on counting.
Even for the completely blind, a bigger display is better
Although it may not seem like it at first glance, people with visual disabilities work better on touch devices with a larger screen. For example, if I work with text, far less information can fit on one line of the phone than if you use a tablet, so if I read the text aloud and go through it line by line, it is much less comfortable on a smartphone. On the touch screen, even for visually impaired people, the placement of two windows on one screen is a huge benefit, thanks to which switching between them is significantly faster.
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I think that the tablet will find use for both blind and sighted users, I personally enjoyed using the iPad immensely. Of course, it is clear that neither the iPad nor tablets from other manufacturers are for everyone, but in general it can be said that nowadays tablets are really suitable for many purposes, from content consumption to almost professional work. The decision-making rules are essentially the same for both sighted and blind users.
