I've never had vo go silent on my iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1.1 either. Egun On, Lagunak! Basque for G'day, Mates Louie P. (Pete) Nalda Http://www.myspace.com/lpnalda Http://www.facebook.com/lpnalda Http://www.linkedin.com/in/lpnalda Twitter @lpnalda
On Jun 12, 2012, at 12:29 PM, Sieghard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David and others, > > I recently listened to a Podcast from a guy in Marburg, Germany which is > where I attended the German Secondary School for the Blind and he reviewed a > new Samsung phone running Android 4.0 (Icecream Sandwich).. The Podcast > consisted of 2 approx. 1 hour episodes and after I listened to the first I > definitely had heard enough. Yes, there is speech and he was, after many > attempts, able to turn it on and set up the phone, but if James thinks it is > frustrating to work with Voiceover I think maybe he should get an Android > phone, it's like people who complain about the standards of living here in > North America or Europe, I always say to thm they should maybe go and live in > a country like the Philippines or some other third-world country and to do so > in the way 95% of the population lives there. Let's say Android has a long > way to go to even come close to being as accessible as the iPhone, if James > thinks Apple should update more often to push out specific fixes, how would > that be in the Android market where the majority of users still use version > 2.2 or 2.3 and these users probably won't even be able to upgrade their > devices which are maybe less than 2 years old whereas any iPhone 3GS user can > update to the latest version of iOS. Oh yes, and when was the last time you > heard a commitement or even a mention from Microsoft or Google about Windows > Phone 7 or Android accessibility? But with over 1,200 people on this list > there are bound to be some who always look at the cup as half empty rather > than half full, I prefer the half full approach, it makes for a more content > and happier disposition. > > By the way, just to add to the Voiceover going silent thing, I have an iPhone > 4S and while I don't use a dock, this has not happened once to me since I > bought the phone last October. It happened a couple of times on my iPhone 4, > mostly when using it with a dock at the time, I also sometimes had Voiceover > become a bit sluggish and maybe a couple of times the phone sort of crashed, > but typically it was nothing a power off and turning it back on didn't fix > and it is a far cry from my old Windows Mobile 6.1 HTC S743, I had to always > carrya paper clip or tooth pick so I could reset the thing. I could of course > continue with one example after another demonstrating how the iPhone has > changed the game completely by making a main stream device fully accessible, > but I think we all know this so let's just remember it and show a bit of > grace when it comes to the odd bug, after all, even sighted people deal with > bugs and from what I heard Android users deal with enough of them even > without throwing in a screenreader or other accessibility features. > > Oh, and one last remark regarding the size of the visually impaired market. > It may be small now, but as the population ages and that is a worldwide trend > especially in the western countries where a combination of good food, medical > care and very little hard physical work causes the average age to go up more > and more, there will be more and more old people who experience some sort of > vision loss. At the same time more and more older people have used computers > and technology so I predict that in the future, say 15 to 30 years from now > the market for accessible devices will greatly increase. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > 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/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en.
