But as we saw with the “horn” example, dictation is far from perfect. Many of the articles I’ve read over the years have generally touted Siri’s ability to dictate text, thereby negating the need for typing on the touchscreen. While Siri is one of many accessibility tools, the sighted public’s idea of how we use it is ripe with misconceptions. Too often, I read articles in the mainstream (that is, not specifically written for an audience of users with visual impairments) media about iOS accessibility which extol the access Siri provides blind users. Rather, it is that Siri's potential to assist blind and low vision users is generally misunderstood and overstated. My biggest gripe with Siri isn’t about anything it does or doesn’t do, however. But I know that text dictation will never be 100% accurate, and thus I either check all of my texts (paying particular attention to the ones I think it might have difficulties interpreting), or I just enter them by hand. When I ask Siri things like, “What’s zero divided by zero?” I laugh, because its response is funny and because whoever programmed it clearly has a good sense of humor.īut when I dictate certain words, such as “horn,” (something I do regularly, as I am a railroad enthusiast and often send train horn recordings to friends) and Siri hears and inserts another four-letter word instead, I get really, really mad. The same goes for setting my monthly hair cut appointments almost always, it just works. When I wake up and am sure I’m out of bed, I tell Siri, “Turn off all of my alarms,” and go on with my day. I’m the type of person who might possibly sleep through my first alarm, so I set several as an extra precaution. When I tell Siri to set my alarm just before I go to bed, I appreciate the convenience of being able to simply tell my phone something and it get done. I have a love-hate relationship with Siri.
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