Hi Erik, Cathy, Isaac, and Others,
First a correction to the link I gave Erik. The accessible HTML
version of the iPhone 4 manual is at:
http://help.apple.com/iphone/4/voiceover/en
The accessible HTML version of the iPhone 3 manual (for those who did
not upgrade to iOS 4) is at:
http://help.apple.com/iphone/3/voiceover/en
I copied this incorrectly from a post to the viphone list. Apple has
been changing the address format for the accessible HTML version for
iOS4, so that there are versions for different languages indicated by
the two letter code at the end. The "en" for the English version is
what I left off. There are now accessible HTML versions in languages
corresponding to two letter codes for "fr" for French, "es" for
Spanish, "de" for German, "it" for Italian, "nl" for Dutch, "el" for
Greek, "pt" for Portuguese, "ja" for Japanese, "ko" for Korean, "da"
for Danish, "sv" for Swedish, "no" for Norwegian, "fi" for Finnish,
"hu" for Hungarian, "id" for Indonesian, "lt" for Lithuanian, "pl" for
Polish, "ro" for Romanian, "sk" for Slovak, "bg" for Bulgarian, "tr"
for Turkish, and probably others.
I should mention that these appear to be converted from the PDF
versions of the user guides found in:
http://support.apple.com/manuals/
Some of the characters are still odd, and they look in the state that
the English version of the iPhone users guide for iOS 4 looked,
shortly before its release.
Anyway, for the English iPhone User Guide (iOS 4), the chapter on
accessibility starts at:
http://help.apple.com/iphone/4/voiceover/en/iph3e2e2c13.html
and the section specifically about VoiceOver starts at:
http://help.apple.com/iphone/4/voiceover/en/iph3e2e4218.html
(You might want to start reading one level higher under Accessibility
for information about low vision usage settings, or if you also have
hearing disabilities). What I did when I got my iPod Touch was
create a link to this section of the User Guide on my home page for
easy reference. After you open the section of the guide you want to
link in Safari (on your iPhone or iPod Touch), double tap the
"Utilities" button at the bottom of the screen, just above the "Home"
button. You'll hear VoiceOver announce the first utilities option,
"Add Bookmark, button". Flick right (or run your finger vertically
down the bottom half of the screen to hear the options) to the "Add to
Home Screen Button", and double tap. Then whenever you need to access
the manual to review the descirption of gestures, keyboard shortcuts,
text entry, etc. you can just double tap the icon on your home screen
to bring up this section in Safari.
Richard Turner (on the viphone list) also converted a copy of the PDF
version of the iPhone User Guide to Word format. The direct link to
the zipped document is:
http://www.turner42.com/iPhone_iOS41_User_Guide.zip
For iPad users there is a free ePub version of the iPad User Guide in
the iBook store (but no user guides for the iPhone or iPod Touch there
yet).
In addition to the Tech Doctor podcast and Mike Arrigo's podcasts on
the iPod Touch on Blind Cool Tech that cathyk mentioned, there are
some some other resources like Mark Taylor's Candleshore Blog and
Podcast, which had a lot of entries when everyone was getting started
a year ago, including some keyboard entry demos. Apart from the
AppleVis site, I'd mention Vision Australia.
I'll paste in a post I made to the mac-access list 2 months ago in
response to a new user query for more iPhone resources:
<begin quote>
Hi Paul,
I'll add a few other suggested sites. To follow up on Chris'
suggestion the general Vision Australia link that I posted last month
is:
http://www.adaptive-tech.org/ess/html/
There's both general information on the iPhone and iPod Touch, and
also about the new iOS 4 updates (that added features such as touch
typing, the language rotor, application switching, unified mailboxes,
new gestures, ability to lock portrait mode, phonetic pronunciation,
support for more Bluetooth devices including Braille devices, iBooks,
and a number of other things).
The Hadley School for the Blind did a seminar on "Using Apple's iPhone
and iTouch" last Spring. Their web site has the seminar mp3 files and
a resource page that lists many of the older podcasts (such as Mike's
earlier podcast on Blind Cool Tech):
http://www.hadley.edu/2_f_past_seminars.asp
The Serotalk podcasts have kept pretty up to date coverage on the
iPhone and iPod Touch:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/serotalk/id349813889
Web pages at:
http://serotalk.com/
The Mac-cessibility Network - News podcasts
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=279093812
Also check the web site for tips:
http://www.lioncourt.com/category/quick-tips-iphone/
And especially for the list of accessible iPhone/iPod Touch apps:
http://www.lioncourt.com/voiceover-compatible-iphone-applications/
I'd give you the Apple link for the current iOS 4 iPhone User Guide,
but it seems to have disappeared in the last few days. The old HTML
manuals and demos are:
• HTML manuals for the iPhone and iPod Touch. I bookmark links to
both the full iPhone manual (first entry) and the accessibility
section (second entry) on the Safari app for my iPod Touch.
http://help.apple.com/iphone/3/voiceover/en/
http://help.apple.com/iphone/3/voiceover/en/iphddd0e033.html
• A video demo of using the iPhone 3GS with VoiceOver
http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3gs/accessibility.html#video
The PDF version of the current iPhone User Guide is at:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iPhone_iOS4_User_Guide.pdf
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
<end quote>
Anna Dresner and Dean Martineau (on the viphone list) are writing a
guide to the iPhone for VoiceOver users. If cathyk listened to the
Tech Doctor podcast interview with Anna, she'll have heard this
mentioned.
Dean Martineau did a nice Blind Cool Tech podcast on rearranging the
Home screen, and also a nice podcast on the iPhone at the beginning of
the year:
• Dean Martineau's Accessible World Tek Talk podcast on the iPhone
(January 11, 2010)
http://www.accessibleworld.org/
Type in "Dean iPhone" into the search field, since the direct link
URL address is very long. This is a 2 hour demo of the iPhone and
some of its applications (both default and third-party).
Isaac, can't you send your PDF to TextEdit by using a services menu
shortcut? (This assumes that the PDF is not protected.) You should
be able to do this by enabling the "New TextEdit Window Containing
Selection" services option. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard >
Keyboard Shortcuts and then select "Preferences". Then check the
shortcut you want to use -- in this case, "New TextEdit Window
Containing Selection" from the TextEdit services. I think you are
prompted to set this up if the service option you want is not there,
and can do this as follows:
1. Open your document in Preview
2. Select what you want (or use Command+A to select all)
3. Go to the Preview menu and right arrow to the services menu
4. If the service you want is not there, go to "services preferences"
5. This opens the keyboard shortcuts tab of system preferences and
places you in the shortcuts tab where you select the "services
category" and can assign this TextEdit service option.
"New TextEdit Window Containing Selection" will send your selected
text to a TextEdit window. The selection can be done in a Safari
browser as well as in Preview.
Also, I'm not sure whether cathyk was speaking of the iPod Touch or
macvisionaries for a wiki, but she might also take a look at:
http://icanworkthisthing.com/
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Oct 5, 2010, at 06:04, Isaac Obie wrote:
Hi all,
Bookshare has many of David Pogue's books, but I am not finding any
of them useful at all. I see no mention of voiceOver in them at all.
I find them boring and really useless. the best I've found thus far
is that voiceOver getting started manual or user guide and that's
really a feference more than a manual.
I wish there was an easy way to convert pdf files to text....
Isaac
----- Original Message ----- From: "cathyk" <[email protected]>
To: "MacVisionaries" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: voiceover manual for IOS4?
Dear All,
I agree with Erik: where is David Pogue's blind twin brother who could
write us a "missing manual" for vo? Is there a way to create a
macvisionaries wiki where people could contribute to a set of how-
to's, maybe by beginning with a list of FAQs? I realize that
macvisionaries archives probably contains a lot of valuable info, but
wouldn't it be great to have the wisdom collected in one place and
updated? I'd be happy to help in such an effort, with my main
contribution being an endless string of pathetic newbie questions.
But we all have to start somewhere, right?
For more immediate help, Robert Carter of the Tech Doctor podcasts
directed me to Mike Arrigo's podcasts on the ipod touch and vo at
Blind Cool Tech: http://www.blindcooltech.com/
Best,
cathyk
On Oct 5, 7:58 am, erik burggraaf <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Esther,
You wrote:
The more useful accessible HTML version of the iPhone User Guide
(that you can access from anywhere) is at:http://help.apple.com/iphone/4/voiceover/
This seems to be what I'm after, but it renders a page not found
error.
I did some googling and found a snippit of documentation which
basicly outlined the voiceover gestures and nothing else. I have so
many very basic newbie questions that any public forum will soon
grow weary of answering them, so maybe I will try for the PDF manual.
Thanks,
Erik Burggraaf
User support consultant,
One on one access technology support and training over the phone or
in person,
1-888-255-5194http://www.erik-burggraaf.com
On 2010-10-03, at 8:07 PM, Esther wrote:
> Hi Erik,
> There are two places to check for a manual on the iPod Touch.
First, > there should be an iPod Touch User's Guide listed under
the Safari > bookmarks of your iPod Touch. If you synched your
bookmarks and overrode > the default definitions you can add the URL:
>http://help.apple.com/ipodtouch/
> to your bookmarked locations (you only need to type in >
"help.apple.com/ipodtouch/" and this address only works from an
iPhone > or iPod Touch. Anywhere else (on an iPad, or on your
computer), you'll > be taken to the Apple Support pages where you
can find some link to a > PDF version of the user guides.
> The more useful accessible HTML version of the iPhone User Guide
(that > you can access from anywhere) is at:
>http://help.apple.com/iphone/4/voiceover/
> (There's no special accessible HTML version for just the parts
that > works for the iPod Touch)
> Also, note the AppleVis web site for more information:
>http://applevis.com/
> A nice summary of the iOS 4 Apple Keyboard shortcuts may be found
at:
>http://www.hllf.net/70
> if you use a Bluetooth keyboard with your iPod Touch.
> HTH. Cheers,
> Esther
> On Oct 3, 2010, erik burggraaf wrote:
>> OK guys, I've got my first ipod touch here. I can navigate
around the >> screen, open apps and folders, sort of type on the
slide type keyboard >> and so on. Not bad for an hour or two
fiddling, but I need a manual or >> something, even if it stinks
like the voiceover manual for Mac OS 10.6. >> Anybody know where I
can get this?
>> Thanks,
>> Erik Burggraaf
>> User support consultant,
>> One on one access technology support and training over the phone
or in >> person,
>> 1-888-255-5194
>>http://www.erik-burggraaf.com
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