One of my good friends has a generic disease which causes her thumbs to be miss shaped. These two fingers look as if they might have been smashed in and so she tends to struggle typing on her apple smartphone. USA Today’s article, Try these alternative keyboard options for your smart phone, by Rob Pegoraro highlights the new keyboards you can get that may help some people who struggle with the touch screen feature. These clever keyboards allow for clever tricks to help users improve typing errors. One the apps offers a ‘Gesture typing’ feature which lets you trace a path over the letters you would like to type. The transition to touch screen calls for the average cell phone and smartphone user to evolve to these advancements. Although so people like my friend are at a disadvantage and therefore have a more challenging time meeting these changes. We need these types of tools and technology in order to appeal to all and promote to all smartphone users.
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