Aggreed Nick. When voiceover is on it alters the gestures required, and would not fit the majority of the users which aren't us...
I really think that it is nit-picking critisism, as I own a touch, and my lady owns an iphone and there isn't any difficulties turning on the feature from itunes. On 2010-04-20, at 4:19 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > 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: nic2...@me.com > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk > 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
