Hi,

Hmm. I'm going to be interested in that. Inserting the sim in the iPhone is 
ridiculously easy.

I want to do it on the iPad now. I can't imagine it being any different.

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On Apr 21, 2010, at 12:10 PM, marie Howarth wrote:

> I don't know if the tripple click of the home button is set to a default but 
> Apple try to not second guess their customers so I think this would be kind 
> of counter Apple. And not to mention, they would still complain if the triple 
> tap brought up voice over when it was a low vision user who was using the 
> phone. I seriously think this article is nit picking. And, like you say Dan, 
> all of these devices need to be hooked up to ITunes to get them working. 
> Someone also pointed out on twitter earlier that the insertion of a simcard 
> into the IPhones and IPad 3Gs would not be accessible. I don't know about 
> anywhere else, but Apple inserted my simcard into my IPhone and registered it 
> for me in store when I got it. And with the introduction of the new 
> Micro-sims, I don't want to be messing with something that small. I'll leave 
> that to the experts thank you :)
> 
> On 21 Apr 2010, at 08:30, Dan Eickmeier wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, agreed there Anne.  Apple does have it right, and obviously these 
>> blindness organizations expect VO, and any accessibility features to be 
>> turned on by default.  The iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad are accessible out 
>> of the box in my opinion, because  with those devices, you have  to hook 
>> them up to a computer  anyway at first, before using them to sync your 
>> content, and register the device.  Voiceover can be turned on in iTunes via 
>> the device's settings, so therefore I do consider that  accessible out of 
>> the box.  Maybe what they  were getting at, is the fact that it'd be nice if 
>> the tripple-click home setting under accessibility was set to toggle 
>> Voiceover by default?  Not sure, , but that's a possibility as to what  they 
>> were getting at.  
>> On Apr 20, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello Nic,
>>> 
>>> Yes, it was a pretty good article for the RNIB, but I had the same reaction 
>>> as you did about it being a pity it wasn't accessible out of the box. They 
>>> just can't admit that Apple has really got it right!
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Anne
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Apr 20, 2010, at 10:19 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,
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>>>> 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
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