Will Microsoft's Focus On Touchscreen and Speech Technology Improve Accessibility?

Saw a recent article where Bill Gates says Microsoft will be focusing on touchscreen and speech technology to replace keyboards.  We will have to just wait and see if this improves accessibility.

Bill Gates says Microsoft is pushing touchscreen and speech technology to replace keyboards

(Associated Press)

Excerpt:

"People will increasingly interact with computers using speech or touch screens rather than keyboards, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said.

''It's one of the big bets we're making,'' he said during the final stop of a farewell tour before he withdraws from the company's daily operations in July.

In five years, Microsoft expects more Internet searches to be done through speech than through typing on a keyboard, Gates told about 1,200 students and faculty members Thursday at Carnegie Mellon University."

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