When I was having some trouble with my iPhone and called tech support,
one of the comments the guy made was that they get a lot of people who
call in because they've turned VO on by accident, and this was *before*
the tripple-tap thing. He was glad to see someone was actually using VO
and enjoying it.
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: iPhone VO home button oddity
> From: Chris Blouch <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, September 15, 2009 7:33 am
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> As suual I'm behind on my email.
> I verified that triple click currently has no default action.
> Double-clicking home goes to favorites and a triple just goes back
> home again. Only after enabling the triple-click in preferences does
> it do anything useful.
> I guess I can understand Apple not wanting to make this a default as
> some percentage of users would stumble upon it and then not know how
> to get out of it. Maybe something more obscure like a three finger
> touch while triple-home clicking. Something doable without sighted
> assistance but not easily stumbled upon. For those not familiar with
> VO on an iPhone accidentally enabling VO would be quite a bad
> experience.
> CB
> John JD Denning wrote:
> Is there a tripple click cmd for non VO users?
> I have a sighted friend who uses VO while driving.
> Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 11, 2009, at 9:36, peter apgar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I would have to disagree. The I phone is designed for the general
> population. by removing one of the gestures you are there by
> removing some of the sighted users accessability. we are a limited
> population and by making voiceover available by means of I tunes it
> maximizes accessability with out anoying the majority of their sales.
> could you picture a sighted person haveing all of their gestures
> respond differently? WTF would probably be the first words out of
> their mouths.
> On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:48 AM, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote:
>
> great question and suggestion. tell apple through their
> accessibility
> section. Take care, Max
> On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:59 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
>
> So I upgraded my iPhone to the 3.1 OS which now has the option to
> have a
> triple click of the home button toggle VO on or off. Great if you
> want
> to quick set an iPhone back to the regular gesture system for
> somebody
> else to use and then get VO back on again. What seems odd to me is
> that
> this feature isn't enabled by default. So that means the out of the
> box
> experience still requires sighted assistance to turn on VO the first
> time. From there the triple home click preference can be set to
> toggle
> VO. Why not ship it that way from the factory for a truly self-
> service
> experience?
> CB
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