Hi Sandy Lynne actually uses large text all the time for SMS and E-Mail. AS she is telling me, she also makes it a habit to use VoiceOver now and then, even though she doesn't really need too.
If Apple were to buy the code and the rights to this app so that they could integrate it, yes, that would be nice. But as things stand I don't see it happening. We have to be mindful of how much Apple has already given us in terms of accessibility. Consider, Windows screen-readers and magnifiers are all horrendously expensive with the obvious exceptions of NVDA and Thunder. I don't want to go down that road on list as it would be off topic. But VoiceOver is far far more than just a primitive screen-reader. It is a very very useful and usable tool for those of us who require serious work from our Macs. An awful lot of development resources have gone into VoiceOver, and still are. I don't think Apple is quite done yet. :) This is just a personal viewpoint and I'm sure there will be others who disagree. But I really don't think $15.00 is too high a price. Yes, it would have been nice if it were lower and if there were a trial version on their website. But still, although I have yet to see Fleksy, I gather the findings of those who have used it are very favourable. So I will take them at their word in a moment.k I'll go and spend my 15 bucks. I'm still not sure how it works, so I'll save any further comment until I have bought the beast and tried it. I think you're right about Siri. I think there still is an app somewhere which is similar to Siri but works on the iPhone 3GS as well as the iPhone 4 and iPad. Gordon On 13 Jul 2012, at 15:08, Sandy Tomkins <[email protected]> wrote: Hallo Gordon, Actually, I think this app is good enough to be incorporated into the IOS and, unless I am much mistaken, there is at least one precedent, I.E. Siri existed as an independent app before the 4s came out. I think I am right in saying that Apple bought it and incorporated it. I have already asked my sighted partner to try it out and he was zipping along at a rate of knotts, very impressed! I have heard from many friends that even when using the v keyboard as a sighted person it is too easy to hit the wrong letter, not everybody's fingers are small enough to manage efficiently on the small iphone screens. So, maybe, this app will have a glorious future! While on the subject of using some of the accessibility features of IOS and its Apps, I am showing sighted friends who have the apple devices how to use "large text" in settings to make reading emails, texts etc much more enjoyable as the default font size on the small screens is very hard on the eyes. Happy Fleksing! Sandy. Sent from my iPhone On 13 Jul 2012, at 14:17, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't get this. The app is there, all you have to do is install it and > you're good to go. Apple isn't the developer of this application as far as I > am aware. So I really don't see the problem. What you're saying is you want > Apple to hijack the developer's application and implement it as part of the > operating system. 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