Hi, Vo doesn't kick in. You have to activate that as well when turning on any Mac. Which is the point.
Regards, Nic Mobile Me: [email protected] Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: [email protected] AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Apr 20, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > Hi, > > Nick while I agree with you entirely, I think the point they were trying to > get across is this. When one turns on any kind of mac desktop or laptop, if > no interaction takes place for a specific time VO kicks in. I think that > this might be the kind of thing they wanted to happen with the iPad. > > Of course I could be entirely wrong, and to be honest this doesn't make any > sense, but my feeling is that this is the point the article was trying to > make. > > Cheers, > > Dónal > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicolai Svendsen > Sent: 20 April 2010 21:20 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Article from the RNIB about the IPad > > Hi, > > I'm a bit confused here. > > "It is just a shame that VoiceOver is switched off by default, meaning it > has to be activated before the iPad can be used." and "It would have been a > real bonus had the iPad been accessible out of the box. Unfortunately, this > was not quite the case." > > These views are kind of strange and puzzling to me. It seems a weird > definition of "out of the box". It's a mainstream product. That'd make it > too confusing for a sighted user using the iPad if VoiceOver was on by > default. And, by all rights, it shouldn't be on by default, as it is a > product not geared "specifically" towards blind people. That's the only > thing I found kind of odd, but otherwise, pretty nice. > > Regards, > Nic > Mobile Me: [email protected] > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: [email protected] > AIM: cincinster > yahoo Messenger: cin368 > Facebook Profile > My Twitter > > On Apr 20, 2010, at 6:46 PM, marie Howarth wrote: > >> I would agree with you John. as a total VI user of an IPhone, I don't > think they praised the screen reader enough. And its that point of the > accessibility out of the box that has wound me up. I think that could put > users off entirely and let's see, how many products are accessible out of > the box that rNIB promotes readily? >> I'll post a link to my blog I'm writing for you guys to agree or disagree > with me but on the whole, I think its a fair first impressions. >> >> On 20 Apr 2010, at 17:33, John J Herzog wrote: >> >>> Thanks for passing this article along. I think that, for the most part, > this article was fair. They seem to point out both positives and negatives > of the product which is good. >>> The only area where I have some problems with the article, is that they > made to big of a deal about activating voiceover through Itunes. This is not > that hard since it is accessible on both mac and windows, and requires all > of two seconds to do. Other than that, it's pretty good. >>> >>> John >>> >>> On Apr 20, 2010, at 12:18 PM, marie Howarth wrote: >>> >>>> Hi guys, >>>> Thought I'd put this article out there for everyone to discuss. I will > be writing a blog on my opinions of this article shortly. But here it is for > you all to read. >>>> >>>> It's an article done by the RNIB which is the national charity for the > blind in the UK. You need to download the article, its in word format but > will read on text edit and such on the mac. >>>> thanks >>>> > http://www.rnib.org.uk/livingwithsightloss/computersphones/Pages/technology_ > news_reports.aspx >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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