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It seems that if you don’t write the word "Apple" on an article this week your blog will be totally ignored. To be honest, watching the Steve Jobs presentation at the MacWorld I got inspired to write about direct manipulation. I was specially impress by the multi-touch function of the MacBook Air trackpad.

"New features like swiping and scrolling will help impaired people…"

This is not just a new toy, from the usability point of view this is great. New features like swiping and scrolling will help impaired people. As Steve Jobs showed, these two features works with the Safari internet browser, enabling to easily go forward and backwards and to scroll around the page. All with your fingers.

 

The screen zoom feature and the "pinch and expand" work also with Safari, helping visually impaired people to read web pages. The other features like tap and "click and drag" could also help people with problems to point with the mouse.

Many might wonder how is possible that nobody did it before. This is Apple Computer design, user-centered and easy to use. This proves that designing for impaired people is actually designing for all. See other articles on how usability can help impaired people.

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