Although I was initially attracted to the sudden appearance of a tantalizing new option in our brand spanking new vending machine, I quickly noticed a funny little UI gaffe.
Super handy braille on the keypad, but no way for a blind person to know what number sequence corresponds with which selection, right?
The only scenario this would work for is if a colleague was nice enough to read off the options to you, but then didn't quite have the extra couple seconds to stick around and key-in the corresponding code. Otherwise this is basically torture to a snack-hungry seeing-impaired person.
And a really mean trick could be played on a blind person who wants yo yos but gets a tuna salad kit instead.
Posted by: Deirdre | May 27, 2010 at 08:55 PM