Talk:Dasher
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This article may be given the "low importance" by mistake - I think that such a usefull program, giving such ease (and speed) of input (with either a few buttons, finger movements, head movements or other limited movements) are very important to disabled people (and also to asian people, as it may improve the ease of input in their own langage). For those targeted audience the importance is probably higher than Low. I do agree that most other users will probably never use it, but still, knowing about it is (to me) important. I'm trying to find the exact definition of this "assesment" sticker, to see if it relates to a particular context (Is it for example just to day that it is "Low importance" to have it as en entry for the dvd version of wikipedia?). Please enlighten me :) I'm new to wikipedia editing... Edhel-Dil 22:30, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
- Agree with you 100%. Perhaps if the creator of article had made a note of why anyone would want to use such a device, it would have scored better. As it stands, many readers would think there was nothing more to this than another geekboy video game gadget. I will add a note as to the possible implications of such devices for severly handicapped people. As I write, the true-story film “Diving Bell and the Butterfly” has enhanced public awareness of “locked in syndrome”. I was surprised at how primitive and cumbersome were the methods to give back to the paralysed protagonist his ability to communicate, and was wondering how such new prosthetic devices using modern computer technology might assist these unfortunate people. Anyone interested can see my original post on my WP page. Myles325a (talk) 04:29, 27 February 2008 (UTC) (One hour later: actually, ended up substantially rewriting that par.) Myles325a (talk) 05:37, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
