Hi James, Since you haven't had an answer yet to your question about magnification on the iPad for low-vision users, I thought I would just mention that if you add the "zoom" function setting to the web rotor on the iPad, as well as to the iPhone, you can flick to an 11 times zoom magnification. This is on top of using features such as "large text" under Settings > General > Accessibility" which is separate from "Zoom" and which lets you select font sizes of up to 56pt for Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Messages, and Notes. Hope some low vision iPad user can chime in with more information. Also, I think you can use the inverse pinch gesture (where you touch the screen and move your fingers apart to expand what's displayed on the screen) to zoom on top of the magnification.
As for apps that let your create documents, etc. maybe Bryan can comment on how Pages works under magnification? I know that a number of low-vision users, as well as totally blind users, use Nebulous Notes on both the iPad and the iPhone or iPod Touch. That's a note-taking app that can sync contents with Dropbox, and you can also specify font sizes and color schemes for font and background, which are features that low-vision users like. It can read RTF files, and if you want to use fancier options, you can also go into the settings for the app and customize your keyboard to add a top row of keys. A few of these have to be relabeled if you are a VoiceOver user, such as "undo" and "redo", because they use icons that aren't announced on the keyboard. However, if you go to "Settings" in the app and switch the "Keyboard Utility Bar" to "on", then double tap the next entry for "Customize Utilities", you can hear all these all these extra keys defined under the list of "Active Macros". That's because each of these entries contains both the macro definition and the icon used for the key, so even when the icon is "unpronounceable" by VoiceOver, the macro definition for the action, such as "undo" or "redo", is read out. There's a more extensive explanation of ways to replace the icons with short text labels that VoiceOver will announce by editing the macros, and a description of how you could simply change the macro entries to simply be a regular character that you want to appear in the extra row of keys (such as adding numbers), if you check the archives for my posts in the discussion with Geoff about these features at the beginning of June, when the Nebulous Notes for Dropbox was briefly free. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jul 9, 2012, at 8:48 AM, James AUSTIN wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a work-related question here, for those of you on list who use > magnification. > > I took a call from a customer today, who wanted to know how well the > magnification worked on iPad. I explained that this was probably very > subjective, but said i would try to find out how high the magnification level > went. > > Also, are there any Office-type apps which work well with magnification > please? > > Thank you for any help. > > Take care > James > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
