Actually many of the gestures used to control the Iphone can be used
on Apple's Macbook computers with the trackpad and Voiceover, I never
thought I'd see the day when Apple would be showing the other
manufacturers of screen readers a "thing or two", moving around a
touch screen or a trackpad is an excellent way to get acquainted with
what's available to the user, various adjustments can be changed such
as sliders for volume controls with a simple gesture and so forth.
The access to the Internet is far better too! tables actually read as
they appear, scroll down a column or across a row, do your thing.
I'm not trying to score points here but I do hope that what Apple has
done - and what other people are doing - will be a sign of future
things to come for blind people.
On 24/09/2009, at 10:00 PM, Raj wrote:
I have seen many blind persons doing it, so it must be something
easy. Just some practicing that will I guess make perfect??
----- Original Message ----- From: "Farley, John [OS-IE]" <[email protected]
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To: "gw info" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 7:44 AM
Subject: FW: I-Phone Question
A really simplistic question: how does a blind person actually
navigate
around a touch screen and select the correct buttons?
Regards, John.
John Farley
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed
Marquette
Sent: 24 September 2009 08:09
To: [email protected]
Subject: I-Phone Question
Indeed, using I-Tunes one may set-up and turn on what Apple calls
voice
over, which is a screen reader more or less built into the iPhone
operating system. That's pretty much the extent of it. If one
synchronizes remotely using Exchange Server, there isn't much need for
iTunes thereafter -- unless one wants to use the iPhone like an I-Pod,
which is shockingly easy to do.
Once it is up and operational, one may turn on and turn off voice over
-- also without sighted assistance -- so that the phone could be
shared
by a blind and a sighted person.
I don't really know why Window-Eyes was mentioned specifically in the
Apple literature except that I-Tunes and JAWS have been known, at
least
in some versions, to conflict with each other.
I don't know this for a fact. I believe I heard it on, I think, Main
Menu, a program on the ACB Website.
Like some Apple detractors, I originally thought the iPhone was a toy,
but I changed my tune when my law firm standardized its mobile
solution
on it, replacing Blackberries and Windows Mobile devices. (Noccia
devices were never considered industrial grade.)
With the iPhone, I have:
an MP3 player
a remote email device
a digital recorder,
a calculator
an Internet browser (which beats the pants off IE mobile)
a device for sending and receiving text messages
a compass
a simple sound editor
a camera
a video editor
and, oh yes, a mobile phone
I've had no problems using I-Tunes with Window-Eyes.
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