Three things iPads do well for seniors Forbes has put together an interesting list of three things the iPad does well for seniors. The writer points out that Apple's iPad makes it easy for seniors with bad eyesight to adjust the text inside apps like Safari or iBooks. Safari's pinch to zoom text adjustment is especially easy because there's no menu button commands to tap, unlike with iBooks.
Forbes relates a touching story of a man in a nursing home who's hands where crippled with arthritis. Normally he wouldn't be able to hold pictures to look at of a family vacation. However, with the iPad's ability to navigate photos just by swiping a finger (or any part of a hand) over the screen, the man was able to browse all of the photos his family loaded onto the iPad.
Forbes also says Apple got one thing wrong. They say that most people over 40 don't like looking at pictures of themselves and blame the reflection of the seniors in the sleeping or powered off iPad's screen as an oversight on Apple's part. That's something I find, frankly, ridiculous. However, maybe Forbes will overlook that next time when they see all the added gesture accessibility menu options in iOS 5.Three things iPads do well for seniors originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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