I do find it rather funny that they slammed a program that ran on a device with a full sized qwerty keyboard yet there all over the iphone with its touch screen.
O well - step in the right direction anyway. On 26/09/2009, Kevin Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote: > You have to ask the sighted friend to turn it on in preferences, I think. > K. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jean-Philippe Rykiel > Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 5:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: iPhone honored by NFB > > > Dear Chris, > a friend of mine has one of these. Can you simply tell me how to turn v o on > and off on his device so I can give it a try. > Cheers, > JPR > http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Chris Blouch <mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 12:05 AM > Subject: Re: iPhone honored by NFB > > It's called voiceover and as something that makes a device accessible via > speech and controls, it is voiceover, but with a different voice (not Alex) > and a phone-specific set of gestures instead of keyboard controls. That > said, it's included on every iPhone 3GS and the newer iPod Touch. Previous > models didn't have the hardware performance to run this so there is no > upgrade to get VO on the older devices. > > CB > > Jean-Philippe Rykiel wrote: > > Sorry for a very down-to-earth question, but does the IPhone come with V O > as well? > JPR > http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Chris Blouch <mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 10:48 PM > Subject: Re: iPhone honored by NFB > > > Some have difficulty comprehending what is new and, by definition, not > well understood. So they define the new in terms of what's known from > the past, but when something is a revolution rather than an evolution > the comparisons fail. Some will lodge those failures as the fault of > what was being measured and dismiss it as being flawed. Others, more > rarely, will correctly realize that the measurement framework has failed > and reevaluate their worldview. The NFB has been measuring sharks for a > long while and Apple brought in an leopard. It will take time for the > definition of 'good' to be redefined. > > CB > > william lomas wrote: >> they can soon praise the iPhone yet slam the mac? >> hyppocrits >> >> >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Kind regards, BEN. email: [email protected] msn: [email protected] web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
