Hi guys. Yesterday I did my demonstration of the iPhone and the Mac both. I first showed them the YouTube video of Steve Jobs introducing VoiceOver. I figured he was better at showing the introduction of what it did than I was any day of the year. The only problem was I couldn't get the volume to go up more, but everybody got real quiet and I think they heard it ok. I wish now I had shown the picture on the Mac and then let the speech come out of the iPhone. They had a device for amplifying speech and it worked with both the iPhone and the computer; it was just YouTube that was the problem. I think I could have controlled the volume better on the iPhone.
Then I put up the help menu just so they could see the options. Of course, I didn't read all that, but it was up there. I have a braille display, so I wrote some braille on it in TextEdit. Then I let them turn on their iPhones in VoiceOver since most of them had them. They liked putting in my name as a contact. One person had some trouble, so i had to set his phone on touch typing, but everybody else was ok. These are experienced iPhone users. In fact, most of them are experienced Mac users as well. I got some really good questions, and they have asked me to put in information from time to time on accessibility. I told them that all of them could help with this by learning some VoiceOver and checking out some of their apps with it. I think some of them will just because they like to mess with computers. Maybe this will help to get some of our sighted friends to turn in comments about accessibility when they write up reviews. It can't hurt. Regards, Gigi On Jan 13, 2012, at 8:48 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > From this article it seems that you have to have a jailbroken iPhone4 to get > video mirroring to work: > > http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-enable-hdmi-video-mirroring-on-iphone-4-ipod-touch-4g-tutorial/ > > CB > > On 1/13/12 9:37 AM, Michael Busboom wrote: >> Hello Gigi, >> >> As far as I know, I will be the only blind person in the audience. >> >> You did bring up one issue, however, that could conceivably be a show >> stopper. I have an iPhone 4, not a 4S. Does this mean that I won't be able >> to project my phone's screen onto something larger? >> >> Take care and good luck with your own demo! >> >> Mike >> >> On 13,Jan,2012, at 1:51 PM, Gigi wrote: >> >>> Hi Michael. >>> I am about to do this tomorrow here in Dallas to the Apple Corps of Dallas. >>> I am also going to show the Mac. The Apple ?Corps has its own big screens >>> and its own Wi-Fi. Almost all of them have iPhones and iPads. Only one >>> other person in the room besides me is blind. >>> >>> Although it will increase some chatter in the room, I am going to show them >>> how to turn on VoiceOver on their iPhones and do some activities like add >>> my name into their contacts and whatever fun things we want to do. I know >>> they can cheat a little by looking at the keyboard, but it will show them >>> some. I am also going to show them how to do the practice screen in >>> VoiceOver. >>> >>> I thought about doing this because I wa told that my 4 iPhone could not do >>> video but the 4S can. I can't get one of them until later this month. Do >>> your audience have iPhones? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Gigi >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Jan 13, 2012, at 6:28 AM, Michael Busboom<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear listers, >>>> >>>> In two months, I will be visiting my family in the U.S. While there, I >>>> will be doing a demonstration of access technology for blind people. >>>> While it won't be difficult to demo screen reader techniques on a Mac, I >>>> am still not sure how to demo VO on an iPhone. Most of the people in my >>>> audience will be sighted, and they will want to see what is going on on >>>> the screen while I work with the unit. Does anyone have any ideas on how >>>> I might be able to project the image of the iPhone screen onto a large >>>> wall screen so that people could see what was happening on the phone as I >>>> used it? >>>> >>>> Many thanks, >>>> >>>> Mike >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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.
