Hi, By using the Volume control while VO is pseaking your volume for VO can get quite loud. I had the same experance and was glad I remembered this trick.
Regards, Alex, On 8-Jul-09, at 9:37 PM, Kevin Reeves wrote: > > I just got back from the Green Hills Apple Store in > Nashville Tn. > My intention was to go and look at the iPhone, and probably walk out > with one if I liked what I saw. However, due to the lengthy process of > making a purchase, the apple store stopped selling iPhones about an > hour and a half before they closed. I showed up 5 minutes after this > cutoff time, but was encouraged to look at the display model as long > as I liked until close. Upon enquiring about having a sales person > turn on Voiceover, they called on another rep who had more experience > with Vo. Turns out, he has some form of visual impairment, which > causes him to have to use the zoom feature. He knew right where vo > was, and turned it on for me. Now, the journey begins. > > My immediate observation was that of many other people. Vo is too > quiet, even with the volume cranked. In a store with a great deal of > background noise, I found vo somewhat hard to hear. Should have > followed my gut instinct and brought a headset along with me. > > My first 10 minutes with the phone was met with some uncertainty. I > was successfully able to explore the phone and open several apps. > However, I found the sensitivity of the touch screen a bit strange. > While dragging my finger along the icons, some would open at random. > At first, I found myself quite lost inside of the apps I was opening. > However, I soon found a consistent pattern to how these apps are laid > out. Once I realized this, I was better able to navigate around > several apps. I was soon successfully able to dial my own phone > number, making my cell phone ring in my pocket. Then, using my cell > phone, I was able to call the display model, answering and ending said > call. In the iPod app, I was able to choose a playlist and start it > playing. I was able to then pause, advance to next track, etc. I even > found myself able to locate the transport button I wanted without > thinking. I guess that's where muscle memory really starts to come > into play. I was not, however, able to bend my head around how to drag > a slider, such as the icon that allows you to advance through a song. > I think there was a tutor message, which would have given me those > instructions, but I accidentally interrupted it, and was unable to get > it to tell me again. > My cursory glance of mail yielded few results. I saw the messages, was > able to open one and sort of read it. However, I was not fully able to > bend my head around it's layout. I couldn't find the compose button, > and I didn't understand the relationships between the message and the > mailboxes. I would assume that the mailbox list would be on the left, > and the messages on the right. I thought that's how it would look, but > I'm not sure. > Safari was a bit interesting as well. I didn't spend but a few minutes > looking at it, and was a tad confused because I saw part of a web > page, along with bookmarks. I wanted to try and enter in a website to > not only look at something familiar, and have an excuse to type. I was > not able to find the button to enter a website, however, I did find > the Google button and began entering in info into the search box. I > tried to type some search terms, but kept making tons of errors. > However, I could understand the concept of typing, and could easily > see that more time taken to practicing would yield much better > results. > > > Final thoughts. > In short, I get it. Voiceover is implemented in such a way that there > are few concepts to understand. Once these concepts are understood and > applied to all apps, your only learning curve is figuring out where > things are on the screen in any given app, and just the general > operation of the phone itself, which is mostly built on logic. I feel > like a week of working with the phone would get me pretty much up to > speed. It wouldn't be that much of a learning curve to stunt my > productivity. My only concern is the fact that I can definitely dial > faster on my nokia n82, and easily locate a contact, using quick > letter navigation. I know that the dial pad will take some time on > the iPhone. It's just one of those things that's going through my mind > as I'm making this decision. The store opens at 10 AM tomorrow. I > could easily go in and get one. Am I ready? Not sure. Should I wait > till september for the possibility of an iPod touch? Again. Not sure. > However, I don't really like the idea of having 2 devices on my > person, when an iPhone would do the trick for everything. Hmmmmm. What > a quandary. I'll keep you all posted. > > Reeves > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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